Co-host Janet Bush talks with Homi Kharas. Kharas is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution and also cofounder of World Data Lab. He studies policies and trends influencing developing countries, the emergence of the world's middle class, and global governance. He's collaborated with the McKinsey Global Institute on research into consumers in emerging markets and economic empowerment, and his latest book is The Rise of the Global Middle Class: How the Search for the Good Life Can Change The World.

In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:
How the character of the world’s middle classes is changing
How the middle classes shape our world
What becoming middle class means for a household
The role of the middle class in climate change
How AI may affect the middle class

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Homi Kharas. Kharas is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution and also cofounder of World Data Lab. He studies policies and trends influencing developing countries, the emergence of the world's middle class, and global governance. He's collaborated with the McKinsey Global Institute on research into consumers in emerging markets and economic empowerment, and his latest book is <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780815740322/The-Rise-of-the-Global-Middle-Class-How-the-Search-for-a-Good-Life-Can-Change-the-World">The Rise of the Global Middle Class: How the Search for the Good Life Can Change The World</a>.
In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:
<ul>
<li>How the character of the world’s middle classes is changing</li>
<li>How the middle classes shape our world</li>
<li>What becoming middle class means for a household</li>
<li>The role of the middle class in climate change</li>
<li>How AI may affect the middle class</li>
</ul>

Forward Thinking examines groundbreaking ways in which the world is evolving and how people and organizations can respond to changing demands and technologies. In each episode theorists, innovators, and business leaders discuss global trends—technology, artificial intelligence, globalization, urbanization, climate change, and more—with hosts Michael Chui and Janet Bush of the McKinsey Global Institute.

Thought leaders in business, economics, and technology discuss major global trends shaping our lives—from AI to urbanization—with the McKinsey Global Institute.

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