Meritocracy is a term coined in the United States (in English: meritocracy, composed of the Latin meritum «merit» and -cracy «-cracy») and introduced in Italy in the Seventies.
What is the point of a ranking of how happy the various countries of the world are? I ask myself this question on March 20, the tenth World Day of Happiness established by the United Nations.
On a typical school day, 1 billion children enter a classroom around the world. That’s more than ever. Yet for many of them, an acceptable quality education is still a distant goal.
Once upon a time, there were the ESGs: Environmental, Social, Governance. A dream born from the rubble of global crises, to say that yes, another kind of economy was possible.
The international investigation conducted by Follow The Money, Il Sole 24 Ore, and Irpi Media revealed what many feared but few dared to denounce: ESG indices, originally created to guide responsible investments, have been emptied of meaning, bent to the logic of power and geopolitics, reduced to mere window-dressing labels.
Back to the World Business Forum. Once again, I will be on stage in one of the most important global business summits. This time we head to Mexico City, at the Expo Bancomer venue in Santa Fe.