Six barriers to global growth – and how leaders can shatter them

From trade wars and resource depletion to the rise of AI and spiralling debt, the world is full of risks for business leaders to worry about. What are the biggest barriers to growth? Influential economist Dambisa Moyo identifies the six big ones – and strategies for surmounting them

This year was not a week old when the first portent of impending economic doom hit the headlines. In an interview with CBS News, artificial intelligence guru Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China, said that 40 per cent of jobs could be automated within the next 15 years.