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A Century of Plenty book
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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.
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Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Latin America
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Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.
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Catalyzing competitiveness: Where investment happens and why
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Competitiveness has moved to the top of the global agenda, and investment is its indicator and its outcome. In the context of dramatically diverging investment patterns globally, companies and regions can pull seven levers to level up.
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Ramping up manufacturing in America?
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Probing how much manufacturing ramp-up would be needed to address US trade dependencies.
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Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Europe
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Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.
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The race takes off in the next big arenas of competition
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In the arenas, investment cycles are accelerating, value pools are shifting, and a new type of competitor is scaling across industries.
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Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade: 2026 update
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Tariff splashes, AI waves, and the ripples reshaping global trade.
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Climate planning has prioritized floods. Heat demands equal attention
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Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has gotten off to a very hot start. This has focused attention on the impacts of heat on health, infrastructure, and economic productivity—and how to best manage them. That is a good thing. While past discourse on adaptation has often focused on the impacts of severe flooding, our recent McKinsey Global Institute report on climate adaptation found that heat is likely to affect far more people and account for a larger share of adaptation costs, write Sylvain Johansson, Mekala Krishnan, Kanmani Chockalingam, and Annabel Farr in Fortune.
Building a more resilient industrial base may require $2 trillion in investment
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As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, intensifying technological competition and geopolitical risks have resurfaced a decades-old question with renewed urgency: Should the United States rebuild its industrial base, write Erik Kutcher and Shubham Singhal in Fortune.
As America turns 250, unlocking the next generation's potential is key
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As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, I've been reflecting on the generations that built the country's success and what it will take to prepare the next generation for the economic transition ahead. Like so many parents, I think about the future my children and their peers will inherit: the opportunities available to them, the skills that will matter, and whether they are prepared for a world changing faster than ever before, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
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