Citi’s Global Perspectives & Solutions* (GPS) is a flagship thought leadership series that is designed to help Citi's clients navigate the global economy’s most demanding challenges, identify future themes and trades, and help clients profit in a fast-changing and interconnected world.
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Citi GPS: Education: Back to Basics - Is Education Fit For The Future? In this report we look more carefully at the role education plays both for individuals and society, asking: How much is an education worth? How will this change over time? And how can we make sure that education systems around the world are fit for the future given the challenges ahead? In this report, we focus on the rapidly growing and changing demand for education both in developed and developing economies. In developed economies, automation and innovation are driving rapid expansions in demand for lifetime learning while, globally, ongoing economic development and population expansion will continue to drive large scale education demand. Education provision, however, is already struggling to keep up, and productivity in the sector is stagnant. In the concluding chapters of this report, we explore the potential solutions to this increasingly acute challenge, exploring potential new means to get more financing into the sector, as well as potential solutions to education’s productivity crisis. |
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Solutions For A Global Water Crisis: The End of ‘Free and Cheap’ Water In this report we explore ongoing challenges facing global water supplies. There are still an estimated 800 million people who do not have access to clean water and some 4 billion people who live under water scarcity. In this report, we explore new, better, ways of managing global water resources. Water is badly managed in many regions around the world, promoting unsustainable and excessive industrial use. Business as usual cannot continue — the global demand for water is expected to nearly double over the next 15 years. With dwindling supplies in many regions this could turn into a global water crisis. In this report, we explore the problem in depth, looking at a range of potential solutions including pricing water efficiently, developing tradable permits to encourage efficient allocation of water and adequate regulation. On a global level, we estimate a total of $7.5 to $9.7 trillion is needed in investment for water and sanitation and related equipment.
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