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The Economic and Social Impact of Language

Mills Scofield

Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. It doesn’t promote growth in our global economy, it’s not supporting global politics and communication, and it’s a major concern for our nation’s security interests. This is paralyzing. World peace?

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

But first mover advantage is a simplistic tenet of global strategy. And the fact that these markets are "emerging" presents more limitations, including the harsh reality of low spending power: GDP per capita in India is $3,900 and in Indonesia is $5,000 (compared to the US at $49,800). also in 2001 ) and India ( Bazee in 2004 ).

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There Will Be Oil, But At What Price?

Harvard Business Review

After all, he has asserted since 2004 that global oil production was nothing to worry about, and that there would be few effects on the economy. Conventional crude ended its 150-year-long growth trajectory in 2004 and flattened out around 74 million barrels per day. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8%

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How Big Should Government Be?

Harvard Business Review

The author of these words is University of California, Davis economic historian Peter Lindert, who hid them among the data appendices in volume two of his epic 2004 empirical study, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century. in 2010, government spending's share of GDP in the U.S.

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