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A Century of Plenty
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This book, a major research effort from the McKinsey Global Institute, explores the advances of the past century and what drove them—what we call the progress machine.
Pulling off another century of human progress
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Five of the authors of the McKinsey Global Institute’s new book talk about writing a new narrative of progress.
McKinsey Global Institute: 2025 in charts
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Here are some of the McKinsey Global Institute’s favorite data visualizations from 2025.
Advancing adaptation: Mapping costs from cooling to coastal defenses
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The benefits of adaptation far outweigh its costs. Yet, the world today spends just one-third of the amount needed to protect everyone exposed to hazards to developed-economy standards. What would it cost to adapt as the Earth warms, and how much will get spent?
Agents, robots, and us: Skill partnerships in the age of AI
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AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together with intelligent machines.
Capturing the next big arenas of competition in ten charts
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Arenas are industries that transform the business landscape. As 18 future arenas emerge, companies should understand their own exposure and positioning now.
The hard stuff 2025: Taking stock of progress on the physical challenges of the energy transition
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The energy transition is proceeding, but unevenly. Easier challenges are being solved, but harder ones are stalling.
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Human and AI ingenuity can deliver a Century of Plenty
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Imagine even the poorest country in the world achieving the prosperity and quality of life of today’s Switzerland—by 2100? In these turbulent times, it seems crazy, doesn’t it? But it is possible, write Chris Bradley, Nick Leung, and Sven Smit in The Wall Street Journal.
Adaptation offers a great bang for the buck — so why aren’t we buying?
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Despite an extraordinary economic payoff — every $1 spent on climate adaptation avoids up to $7 in damages — the world is spending less than half of what is needed, leaving billions of people unprotected, write Annabel Farr, Mekala Krishnan, and Olivia White in Devex.
The world needs 8.5x higher GDP to give everyone a Swiss standard of living. As leaders gather in Davos, fear of growth holds this back
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We seem to be in uncharted territory: a new era. This is the context in which our new book, A Century of Plenty: A Story of Progress for Generations to Come, is set. It looks back at the past 100 years of unprecedented human progress, and asks whether, for all current uncertainties, we can pull it off again. Or do even better, write Chris Bradley, Nick Leung, and Sven Smit in Fortune.