Dambisa Moyo International Economist & Author who Analyzes the Macroeconomy and Global Affairs

Global growth is projected at 3.4 percent in 2016 and 3.6 percent in 2017.

In advanced economies, a modest and uneven recovery is expected to continue, with a gradual further narrowing of output gaps, however, the picture for emerging market and developing economies is diverse but in many cases challenging.

Dr. Moyo discusses that the risks to the global outlook remain tilted to the downside and relate to ongoing adjustments in the global economy: a generalized slowdown in emerging market economies, China’s rebalancing, lower commodity prices, and the gradual exit from extraordinarily accommodative monetary conditions in the United States.

The defining challenge of our time is how do we create solid and sustained economic growth and continue to meaningfully put a dent in poverty across the world.  In essence, how do we restore robust growth in the Eurozone, the United States, and around the industrialized economies creaking under mounting debt, challenging demographics, and stagnating productivity.

How do we boost growth in the developing world – home to 90 percent of the world’s population and where, on average, 70 percent of the population is less than 25 years old – as a period of unprecedented economic expansion begins to slow in some places in regress in others.  

Dr. Moyo discusses each of these issues as well as the structural and tactical implications of global macroeconomic trends, why this time is different, and investment opportunities for the future.

Persistent low economic growth, widening inequality, and the threat of joblessness continue to plague the economy and threaten the security and well-being of global citizens in the future.  

Dr. Moyo discusses why improving living standards and engagement from both public and private sector support will be crucial to economic prosperity. In an increasingly volatile world, where the political and economic models that served as foundations for the last century are no longer adequate, innovative approaches to address these challenges is urgent.

Trust, ethics and Corporate Decision- making in the Era of Short-term-thinking: A view from the Board Room. 

Ethical challenges: GE 2private jets; JCI hiring; whistleblowing, ask not about their work backgrounds, but rather their morality: whats the worst thing you have ever done to another human being?

1. Shortermism is Up

2. Consequences

• Less investment, more payouts: - Dividend: Retained Earnings up. 

3. Cultural shifts - can organizations change?

 • Army, BP, NHS; people die

 • resistance to change and cannabilization - moving from one business to another is death-defying: very rarely happens: same goods, same sales mechanism, same underlying valuation- what happens when these elements change. 

4. Mitigation