We are living in a period of profound transformation. Globalization, new digital technologies, and new means of communication are revolutionizing our production and consumption patterns, altering our relationship to work, and changing the way we process information and disseminate knowledge. Not to mention climate issues, migration crises, and security shocks, which are making this a world in transition, where benchmarks are faltering, a threat with its political ramifications.

The rise of populism and the rejection of dominant models—democracy, liberal capitalism, multilateralism—are shaping a more unstable and complicated geopolitical world where power relations are expressed more violently. This phase of deconstruction heralds a new world, a world in the making, filled with new opportunities and economic and societal models that need to be reinvented.

The experts at Crédit Agricole S.A.'s Economic Research Department are at your service to help you better understand the meaning and challenges of these upheavals.

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