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What must a digital day labourer be able to do in an uncertain world? Which skills are required?

The "Belt and Road" initiative is about economic influence and power, contended Bruno Maçães at the GDI Retail Summit. According to the politician, it helped create the landscape for China's e-commerce industry.

The world has entered a new state of paralysis, as no one knows when things will return to normal, argues economist and former GDI guest speaker Tyler Cowen in an opinion piece for the news agency Bloomberg.

A.I. will make it easier to offer tourism activities. For everyone, anytime. At the same time, the travel experience becomes even better due to more detailed feedback by smart assistants.

Paul Myers cultivates organic vegetables on a large scale in a Liverpool warehouse. In a video interview at the GDI Retail Summit, he explained how he is growing a successful business using aquacultures.

What does Covid-19 imply for retail? How do you build a successful urban farming company? And how do department stores hold their ground? Answers were provided by innovators and retail giants at the GDI Retail Summit from 10 to 11 September 2020. A summary.

Robots do most of our work, scarcities are a thing of the past. This is a scenario from the GDI study "Future Skills". What skills will humans need? How will we live together in the future?

In times of government spending on an unimaginable scale, a discussion of the ideas of "Modern Monetary Theory" is more topical than ever. One of its probably most famous advocates is the US-American professor Stephanie Kelton. 

In a globalised world, composed of countries with vastly unequal mean incomes, citizenship has acquired an enormous economic value, argues economist and former GDI guest speaker Branko Milanović in a blogpost.

"Belt and Road" visualises a new Chinese world order in which the US have disappeared, says Bruno Maçães, non-resident Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and former Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs. Maçães will speak at the GDI Retail Summit on 11 September 2020.