39% of core skills will change by 2030. Industry must act.

 

The private sector has the speed and scale. Now it needs to lead.

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This week, we went looking for stories about action — and found no shortage of them.

In Iraq, entrepreneurs are building solar businesses in conflict zones. In Senegal, families are moving out of flood-risk areas before the next disaster strikes. In Ethiopia, farmers are restoring land that was written off as degraded. And in boardrooms and training centers, companies are stepping up to co-design a future of skills that education systems alone can't deliver.  The thread running through all of it: people choosing to build — carefully, deliberately, even when the odds are stacked against them.

The data tells a similar story. Four compounding risks are threatening global food markets. A widening skills gap is outpacing education systems. But the response is already underway — from smallholder farms to corporate training centers, and at a scale that's hard to ignore. Here's what it looks like on the ground.

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World Bank Group Weekly Update