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Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message on the launch of the World Social Report 2026, titled New Economics of Social Inclusion: Making Transformations Work for All, in New York today:The World Social Report highlights a profound global imbalance.  On the one hand, rapid transformations are reshaping our world.  Digital technologies, artificial intelligence, renewable energy and demographic and economic transitions. On the other hand, these transformations are not working for all. Poverty and deprivation are widespread. Billions are locked out of opportunities because of income, gender, age, disability, ethnicity or the many other fault lines that undermine equality. Cascading global shocks — including the Middle East crisis — are making matters worse.  Food, fuel and fertilizer prices are surging.  And more than 100 countries have had to lower their growth forecasts this year alone. This report advances a New Economics of Social Inclusion. It reminds us that social inclusion is not only a moral or ethical imperative, it is an economic necessity. Inclusive societies are more productive, resilient and prosperous.