BusinessWorld’s special end-of-2021 issue harnesses the collective firepower of the newspaper’s columnists and reporters to answer a few essential questions, at both the big picture and micro levels, about the road ahead. These questions include: How has the economy changed? How are businesses plowing on in the face of nearly two years of pandemic fatigue? How will our established ways of doing things transform while under pressure from disruptors like climate change?

And while it is unwise to make forecasts for government policy in an election year, we also try to address the one thing looming over all these issues: how the identity of the next President might influence – or upend – everyone’s best-laid plans.