WEF releases Global Risks report for 2017
Economic reform that addresses the widening income gap between the world's richest and poorest people is the most important step to achieving global stability over the next 10 years, according to the World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Risks report. Other primary challenges include bridging cultural divisions worsened by emotive political rhetoric, establishing collaborative systems to manage technological disruption's impact on income disparity, restoring faith in cooperative global security mechanisms and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40% to 70% by 2050.

The risks that just won't die

One of the key findings of this year’s Global Risks Report is that inequality and polarization are now ranked in the top three as underlying drivers of global risks.