Global Trendometer. Essays on medium- and long-term global trends. Summer 2017

Background
With the publication of the inaugural edition of the 'Global Trendometer' in the autumn of 2016, the EPRS Global Trends Unit sought to contribute to the process of identifying and addressing medium- and long-term trends, and their possible implications for policy-making in the European Union.

Three essays and eight two-page vignettes on different geopolitical, economic, technological and social issues painted a broad-ranging picture of developments that may shape Europe’s future. With the publication of the Global Trendometer the EPRS Global Trends Unit seeks to contribute to the process of identifying and addressing medium- and long-term trends, and their possible implications for policy-making in the European Union.

In this 2nd edition published in the summer 2017, three essays and seven two-page vignettes on different geopolitical, economic, technological and social issues paint a broad-ranging picture of some developments that may shape Europe’s future.

Essays
+ Sub-Saharan Africa: Demography is not destiny... if women are empowered
+ The return of redistributive tax policies.
+ Between multilateralism and protectionism: Prospects for International Trade

Vignettes
+ Disappearing sand: a limit on the development of urban infrastructure?
+ Water re-use
+ The digital future of news media
+ The surplus of men in China: A gender issue or a social threat?
+ Automated weapons: Making wars 'safer'?
+ Towards a post-GDP world? New measures of socio-economic progress
+ The hollowing of the western middle class

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, September 2017: Global Trendometer: Essays on medium- and long-term global trends - Summer 2017 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/603253/EPRS_STU(2017)603253_EN.pdf

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