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The World Ahead 2026 is the 40th edition of The Economist’s future-gazing annual, published every November since 1986, to provide a guide to the trends, themes and people likely to shape the coming ...
LONDON, Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --The Economist has launched The World Ahead, the annual special year-end issue from The Economist that examines important themes, trends and events that will shape ...
This year President Donald Trump has demolished long-standing norms and upended decades-old institutions at breathtaking speed. The old world order is finished—and in 2026 the contours of what will ...