The current decade demands deep, systemic transformations.
Whether it concerns the climate emergency, technological mutations, or growing demands for social justice, States — particularly those of the Global South — face challenges of unprecedented scale that are reshaping their development trajectories and their strategic room for manoeuvre.
Without reverting to the evolutionist approaches of the past, which ranked countries according to hierarchies of “modernity” in the 1960s-1970s or of “democracy” in the following decades, it remains useful to have synthetic indicators that allow us to situate the dynamics at work and identify the gaps to be bridged.
These indicators, developed by a diversity of actors — universities, international organisations, economic forums and think tanks — cover several key dimensions of contemporary transitions. They are integrated into the Strategic Dashboard developed by the PNT, in order to offer a transversal and operational reading of strategic challenges, and to support decision-making in complex, rapidly evolving environments.
