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Our research is currently grouped into five major themes:
- Productivity and prosperity: Creating and harnessing the world’s assets most productively
- Resources of the world: Building, powering, and feeding the world sustainably
- Human potential: Maximizing and achieving the potential of human talent
- Global connections: Exploring how flows of goods, services, people, capital, and ideas shape economies
- Technologies and markets of the future: Discussing the next big arenas of value and competition
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