As 2023 opens, we’re entering a new world disorder filled with crises on multiple fronts. The largest Global Trends survey ever, from leading insights firm Ipsos, shows that, globally, 74% agree that their government and public services will do too little to help people in the years ahead.
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Business leaders are not trusted to tell the truth – yet are seen to have a responsibility to speak out on issues according to the new Ipsos Global Trustworthiness Monitor report.
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have a tremendous collective footprint on the environment and aspire to become more resource-efficient. Yet, they have been struggling to make structural changes that can substantially impact the environment. The current energy crisis and the spectrum of the economic recession could halt new investments in resource efficiency and undermine the European SME strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe. Policymakers must navigate the crisis and keep boosting long-term investments in resource efficiency, eliminating barriers, and facilitating access to environmental expertise.
Entrepreneurialism is the spawning ground for small businesses which we know help drive the health of most economies. Small businesses took the brunt of pandemic shut downs and are now only recovering. So, what does the spawning ground look like now?
A new 26-country Ipsos poll finds that entrepreneurial activity is alive and well in some countries but lacking in others.
Ipsos European Public Affairs' latest Flash Eurobarometer survey for the European Commission aims at measuring EU businesses' attitudes towards corruption.
On 17 March 2020, we entered uncharted territory, as anti-Covid-19 measured were announced. What followed was like something of another age or of a bizarre planet from a science fiction novel that no publisher would have published: pandemic, lockdowns, curfews, social distancing, vaccine passes, pro-vax, anti-vax...
Covid-19 has been an accelerator of transformations, and as such, of risks and opportunities, for all actors in society: public authorities and citizens, as well as for businesses and consumers