World Economic Forum

===Research reports===
[[File:Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy World Economic Forum 2013.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Two-time [[Academy Award]] winner, Pakistani journalist [[Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy]] at WEF in 2013]]
The foundation also acts as a [[think tank]], publishing a wide range of reports. In particular, "Strategic Insight Teams" focus on producing reports of relevance in the fields of competitiveness, global risks, and [[scenario planning|scenario thinking]].

The "Competitiveness Team"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/index.htm |title=Issues &#124; World Economic Forum-Issues |work=Weforum.org |publisher=World Economic Forum |access-date=29 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201200230/http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/index.htm |archive-date=1 December 2010}}</ref> produces a range of annual economic reports (first published in brackets): the [[Global Competitiveness Report]] (1979) measured competitiveness of countries and economies; The [[Global Information Technology Report]] (2001) assessed their competitiveness based on their IT readiness; the [[Global Gender Gap Report]] examined critical areas of inequality between men and women; the [[Global Risks Report]] (2006) assessed key global risks; the [[Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report|Global Travel and Tourism Report]] (2007) measured travel and tourism competitiveness; the Financial Development Report (2008)<ref>{{cite web|title=WEF – Financial Development Report|url=http://www.weforum.org/issues/financial-development|publisher=World Economic Forum|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818181200/http://www.weforum.org/issues/financial-development|archive-date=18 August 2013}}</ref> aimed to provide a comprehensive means for countries to establish benchmarks for various aspects of their financial systems and establish priorities for improvement; and the [[Global Enabling Trade Report]] (2008) presented a cross-country analysis of the large number of measures facilitating trade among nations.<ref name=pigman3>{{cite book |title=The World Economic Forum – A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Global Governance |last=Pigman |first=Geoffrey Allen |pages=43, 92–112 |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-415-70204-1 |publisher=Routledge |location=London}}</ref>

The "Risk Response Network"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/globalrisk/index.htm |title=Global Risks &#124; World Economic Forum-Global Risks |work=Weforum.org |publisher=World Economic Forum |access-date=29 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201195909/http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/globalrisk/index.htm |archive-date=1 December 2010}}</ref> produces a yearly report assessing risks which are deemed to be within the scope of these teams, have cross-industry relevance, are uncertain, have the potential to cause upwards of US$10&nbsp;billion in economic damage, have the potential to cause major human suffering, and which require a multi-stakeholder approach for mitigation.<ref name="riskreport">[http://www.weforum.org/pdf/globalrisk/2009.pdf Global Risk Report 2009] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225070901/http://www.weforum.org/pdf/globalrisk/2009.pdf |date=25 February 2009}} World Economic Forum.</ref>

In 2020, the forum published a report entitled ''Nature Risk Rising: Why the Crisis Engulfing Nature Matters for Business and the Economy''.<ref name="weforum.org">{{cite web |last1=Quinney |first1=Marie |title=COVID-19 and nature are linked. So should be the recovery. |url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/covid-19-nature-deforestation-recovery/ |website=World Economic Forum |access-date=19 April 2020 |archive-date=3 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903213537/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/covid-19-nature-deforestation-recovery |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=WEF New Nature Economy Report 2020 |date=January 2020 |publisher=World Economic Forum |url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_New_Nature_Economy_Report_2020.pdf |access-date=19 July 2020 |archive-date=23 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623204717/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_New_Nature_Economy_Report_2020.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In this report the forum estimated that approximately half of global GDP is highly or moderately dependent on nature (the same as [[IPBES]]'s 2019 assessment report<ref>{{Cite web |last=IPBES |date=2019-05-17 |title=Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services |url=https://www.ipbes.net/node/35274 |access-date=2023-09-13 |website=www.ipbes.net |language=en |archive-date=30 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130124254/https://www.ipbes.net/global-assessment |url-status=live }}</ref>). The report also found that 1 dollar spent on nature restoration yields 9 dollars in economic benefits.