New Data and Indicators
date: 03/06/2024
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The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition |
Corporate Knights’ 20th annual ranking of the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations shows that companies are tripling down on green investments. As a group, the 2024 Global 100 most sustainable corporations invested 55% of their capital expenditures, research and development, and acquisitions in green themes, compared to an average of 17% by large companies (more than USD 1 billion in revenue) overall. |
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PitchBook Emerging Tech Research - Information Security Report |
This report highlights the expansion of the information security sector to defend against information warfare on the eve of several major elections. With a continual decline in deal value and count in every quarter since Q2 2022, only four categories in the product taxonomy grew in VC funding year over year in 2023: AI protection, cloud security, fraud prevention, and secure networking. The emerging categories of browser security, identity threat detection & response, and data security posture management have been covered in prior reports, and each of these categories produced attractive acquisition multiples. |
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The Trust Index measures the average level of trust in NGOs, businesses, governments and media. The report identifies a new societal paradox: while rapid innovation holds the promise of prosperity, it also poses risks by exacerbating trust issues, potentially leading to increased societal instability and political polarization. In a year where half the global population can vote for new leaders, the acceptance of innovation is deemed critical for societal progress. However, concerns persist about political influence on scientific endeavours, contributing to a decline in trust toward institutions responsible for navigating societal change. |
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The costs to health and the environment from industrial air pollution in Europe – 2024 update |
The economic costs associated with the negative impacts of air pollution caused by Europe’s industrial plants are substantial. The methods of estimating the damage or external costs associated with industrial pollutions impacts on human health, ecosystems, infrastructure and climate continue to evolve. This briefing presents the latest assessment of the trends in externalities of industrial air pollution caused by over 10,000 facilities during the last decade (2012- 2021). |
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Having a workforce with the right skills contributes to sustainable growth, leads to innovation and improves companies' competitiveness. According to the Eurobarometer “SMEs and skills shortages”, skills shortages are the top-ranking problem for SMEs, even more so for 'large' SMEs. Skills shortages represent a serious problem from the smallest to mid-sized companies in Europe, being identified as such by 53% of micro companies (<10 employees), 65% of small companies (10-49 employees) and 68% of medium-sized companies (50-249 employees). Looking back over the preceding two years, 61% of micro companies and 80% of medium-sized companies found it difficult to find and hire staff with the right skills. |
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Putting Skills First - Opportunities for Building Efficient and Equitable Labour Markets |
“Skills-first” strategies focus directly on skills rather than how they have been acquired. The previous report by the World Economic Forum, Putting Skills First: A Framework for Action, laid out how businesses can most effectively knit these ideas into their operational culture. This report combines data from executive and employee surveys to identify the biggest business opportunities, and highlight 13 Skills-First “Lighthouses” which demonstrate the ideas in action. |
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Global Healthcare Private Equity Report 2024
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Macroeconomic challenges have exacted a toll on healthcare buyouts, but green shoots in deal activity reflect the industry’s strong fundamentals. Investors continue trying to unlock liquidity and raise capital for healthcare deals, in a challenging fund-raising environment. Biopharma deals represent the biggest share of healthcare buyouts, while new modalities and innovative therapies such as GLP-1s transform the investment landscape. As investors look to diversify their Asia-Pacific buyout activity, India is viewed as a place to deploy healthcare capital at scale. Private equity investors continue to pursue healthcare IT deals, with rising competition from tech specialists and corporate investors. |
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This report by Dealsuite offers insights into statistics and trends within the European Private Equity market. 512 European PE professionals took part in the survey for this research. The study aims to provide valuable insights about Private Equity to board members, entrepreneurs, and other professionals in the sector, contributing to a positive reflection of the Private Equity domain. While the study has been publishing local and regional M&A reports for many years, this is the first publication of their annual Private Equity report. They are convinced that sharing information within their network leads to an improved quality and volume of deals. |
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Global growth is set to slow further this year amid tight monetary policy, restrictive financial conditions, and feeble global trade and investment. Downside risks include an escalation of the recent conflict in the Middle East, financial stress, persistent inflation, trade fragmentation, and climate-related disasters. Global cooperation is needed to provide debt relief, facilitate trade integration, tackle climate change, and alleviate food insecurity. Among emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs), commodity exporters continue to grapple with fiscal policy procyclicality and volatility. Across all EMDEs, proper macroeconomic and structural policies, and well-functioning institutions, are critical to help boost investment and long-term prospects. |
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With historical data spanning 19 years, the Henley Passport Index is the only one of its kind based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA). The index includes 199 different passports and 227 different travel destinations. Updated monthly, the Henley Passport Index is considered the standard reference tool for global citizens and sovereign states when assessing where a passport ranks on the global mobility spectrum. |
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The 22nd edition of the annual Luxury Study, released by Bain & Company and Fondazione Altagamma, the trade association of Italian luxury goods manufacturers, reveals that despite challenging macroeconomic conditions, the overall luxury market reached €1.5 trillion globally in 2023, indicating a robust 8% to 10% growth over 2022 at current exchange rates (11% to 13% at constant exchange rates), thus setting a record for the industry and demonstrating its unparalleled resilience. These findings are estimated by the study, underscoring the industry's strength. |
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The interactive publication ‘Migration and asylum in Europe’ presents European statistics on migration and asylum. It delves into different aspects such as mobility of people within the EU, migration to and from the EU, the different drivers of migration, people seeking asylum, and many more. This publication offers short texts and interactive visualisations with which you can compare the EU countries through different indicators. Organised into four sections – population diversity, protection and asylum, irregular migration and return, and skills of migrants – the publication provides valuable insights into migration and asylum in Europe. |
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A Blueprint for Sustainable living presents drawings, dimensions and notes. This report draws vivid pictures of the beneficiaries of European Investment Bank projects in 2023. It includes data on the dimensions of their overall investment and the importance of their loans to each beneficiary during the year. It notes the EU policies and expertise that lead them to make each of their investments. |
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The WEF’s “Future of Global Fintech” report exposes the main drivers and challenges of fintech industry’s growth. Surveying 227 fintech companies from various regions, it reveals that the fintech industry is demonstrating strength and resilience, as its customer growth rates averaging above 50%. The main perceived driver of this performance is the consumer demand. Companies also emphasize the importance of the regulatory environment for their growth and the expansion of their financial services.. However, high inflation and interest rates, as well as the funding environment represent major challenges for their development. Concerning their future challenges, 70% of surveyed companies acknowledge that AI is the most relevant topic for fintech industries in the next five years. |
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Business Environment Ranking measures the attractiveness of the business environment in 82 countries, using a standard analytical framework with 91 indicators. Singapore, Denmark and the US will be the three geographies with the best business environment over the next five years. Greece has seen the biggest improvement in business environment over the period. Venezuela is the worse ranked in the index and is expected to remain so after its painful economic collapse. |
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The World’s Happiness Report assesses the happiness at different stages of life and in different countries. Countries are ranked according to their self-assessed life evaluations, averaged over the year 2021-2023. Finland ranks first, followed by Denmark and Iceland whereas Afghanistan is in the last position. Estimating the impact of six variables (GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy at birth, freedom to make life choices, generosity and perceptions of corruption) on happiness, it also reveals that positive emotions play a stronger role than negative ones on the self-evaluated happiness. These six factors are explaining more than 75% of the variation in national annual average ladder scores across countries and years. |