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China’s Growth: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. growth in output per worker from 1979-2004 with TFP accounting for 3.6

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4 Strategies for Reaching the Chinese Consumer

Harvard Business Review

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4%

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Whose Capitalism is it Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris. Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth."

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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. They are also global leaders in tax avoidance, giving rise to concerns in Europe and elsewhere that their tax planning innovations have reduced government tax revenues.