Workforce 2020 Debate

With our global connection and local experience, Manpower influences how people and companies work now and how they will work in the future. We are uniquely positioned to comment on the issues facing the Workforce of 2020.

With the historic integration of India, China, Brazil, and other fast rising nations into the global economy, the rise of workflow software and the emergence of truly portable work, the market for transferable skills is rapidly globalizing. In this environment, what is the future for worker competitiveness? Will the competitive challenge from rising global giants like India and China continue to grow inexorably? How will wealthy countries respond to this growing competition, and what place will their workforce find in the new world order? Is the competitiveness of American and European workers in permanent decline? The Manpower-Economist debate series explores these issues and their impact on the future world of work.

Debate moderator: Matthew Bishop, Chief Business Writer/US Business Editor of The Economist

Matthew Bishop is Chief Business Writer/US Business Editor of The Economist, based in New York. He was previously The Economist's London-based Business Editor, and has also served as its New York Bureau Chief. Matthew is the author of several Economist special survey supplements, including most recently "The Business of Giving," which looks at the industrial revolution taking place in philanthropy; "Kings of Capitalism," which anticipated and analyzed the recent boom in private equity; and "Capitalism and its Troubles," an examination of the impact of problems such as the collapse of Enron. Matthew is the author of "Essential Economics," the official Economist layperson's guide to economics. Before joining The Economist, Matthew was on the faculty of London Business School, where he co-authored three books for the Oxford University Press, on subjects ranging from privatization and regulation to corporate mergers.

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