- From the Black Death in the Medieval Age, the 1918-1919 Influenza, to HIV, SAR and Ebola, viruses have time and again influenced or even swayed human civilization in unexpected scales and ways.
- Friend or foe, benefit or hazard? – from a philosophical perspective
- New trends, new risks
- Is it possible to set up a global Early-warning System to detect new diseases at an early stage or unexpected spread of old diseases?

- Smog is a “red light” signal from the Mother Nature, a warning against the existing mode of development
- How does it happen?
- What have developed economies such as the UK done to get rid of the mess during or after industrialization?

- The recovery is weak. All developed economies but the United States are doing badly. Emerging market numbers lose luster. We are yet to make technological breakthroughs that can lead the world into a new wave of growth. And, above all, the recurrent warning of a global financial crisis, sometime, somewhere.
- Certainties and uncertainties in the world economy in the foreseeable future
- Which economic theories, models and economists shall we resort to in addressing such complexities ahead?
- New growth drivers