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Investing in skills of future can add $8.3 trillion to global economy: WEF



Investing broadly in the skills of the future for both today’s and tomorrow’s next-generation workforce could add USD 8.3 trillion in increased productivity to the global economy by 2030, the World Economic Forum said.


The Reskilling Revolution initiative, a coalition of 50 CEOs, 25 ministers and 350 organisations committed to realising these gains for their economies, societies and organisations, marked two years of progress at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos on Wednesday.





Their work will benefit over 100 million workers on their journey towards reaching 1 billion people by 2030 with better education, skills an economic opportunity, it said.


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