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The U.S. Startup Economy Is in Both Better and Worse Shape than We Thought

Harvard Business Review

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. in GDP 11 years in the future,” the authors report. By contrast, startup quantity is less correlated and not significantly linked once the city’s current GDP is controlled for.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Would You Rather Have Brazil’s Economic Problems or America’s?

Harvard Business Review

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. as befits an already very developed, very rich economy. based companies at the forefront of most interesting digital developments. births per woman in 1980 to 1.8

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If the U.S. Gets into a Trade War with the EU, It Will Lose an Ally in Pressuring China

Harvard Business Review

have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy. the EU, and Japan have agreed to develop “joint action” on China’s subsidies.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

It’s true of GDP. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. That is true of the unemployment rate. They are not. It didn’t happen.