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As of May 2020, Euromonitor International has further downgraded the baseline global real GDP growth forecast for 2020 to a range of -4.0% to -1.5. Advanced economies are expected to be the hardest hit in this recession, with their economic activity…

Smart homes and smart cities are becoming more widespread thanks to growing smartphone and internet use. Data-driven decision making is helping to improve the efficiency of homes and cities, enabling a more sustainable mode of living that discourages…

With falling birth rates and rising life expectancy, the older demographic is growing rapidly as a proportion of the global population, creating significant commercial opportunities (and challenges), as well as giving rise to new societal, economic…

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak significantly disrupted manufacturing and service sectors as well as the global transportation system. This briefing examines how manufacturing, services and transportation industries are impacted by the…

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has shown the vulnerability of the current supply chain model and had an extensive impact on the manufacturing industry’s global supply and transportation networks. Global supply chains are forecast to become more…