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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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Why Greece and Cyprus May Be Better Off Without the Euro

Harvard Business Review

Greece has only managed to wrest the four-month extension of a stability program. 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

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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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