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The Economic Value Of Speaking Other Languages

The Horizons Tracker

If pupils in the UK could increase their learning of Arabic by about 10%, this would correspond to GDP growth of up to £12.6 ” “However, the UK has experienced a sharp decline overall in the uptake of languages since 2004. .” billion over 30 years.

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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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Egypt, Libya, and the Folly of the BRICs

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps no term has so captured the global analyst community since the coinage of "emerging markets" itself. In my travels through dozens of emerging and frontier markets, I've concluded that they are highly differentiated and need to be understood one at a time, with regional trends often more significant than global ones.

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Why Greece and Cyprus May Be Better Off Without the Euro

Harvard Business Review

The bailout was small compared to the sums the Troika gave Greece (€240 billion in two rounds), Spain (€100 billion), and Ireland (€85 billion), and the latter was a significant percentage of Cyprus’ GDP of €17.7 billion in 2012. in 2012; 5.4% in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% of its youth without jobs.

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The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

Harvard Business Review

After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. corporations are global leaders. corporations are global leaders. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP. Further, U.S.