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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

The country has attempted to engage with this significant, often highly educated, and well-connected population through its Compatriots Program, which was launched in 2004. These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. Boosting digital literacy.

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Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Few law students even get the chance to buy the losing lottery ticket: the government estimates that 215,417 jobs for attorneys will open between 2008 and 2018 and in the same decade , there will be over 430,000 new legal graduates so only half will get to practice in their chosen field (at substantial opportunity and tuition costs).

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business Review

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. The Economy in 2018. in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5%

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