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JANUARY 16, 2011

In 2005, housing accounted for 6.1 percentage points from GDP, based on the average of 2010's first three quarters. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 17, 2011. Not too long ago, housing was the workhorse of the U.S. economy before the end of the real estate boom. percent of economic activity in the U.S.

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Real Estate GDP Uncertainty Crisis 95

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. Countries' levels of global connectedness are impacted both by their domestic and their foreign policies.

Report 15

Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

While Guangdong's exports accounted for as much as 37% of China's exports by 2000, its share dropped to 28% in 2011. The province's exports growth rate, which was 26% in 2010, fell to 22% in the first nine months of 2011, and it has continued to decline ever since.

GDP 12

GDP Pharmaceuticals Long-term Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

to 8% GDP growth rate already is a significant slowdown from the nearly 10% annual pace at which China''s economy had been growing until last year. In the first, published in Asian Economic Papers last year, they reported a marked tendency toward slower economic growth when per capita incomes reach around $17,000 a year (in 2005 prices).

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Apple and lots of others, including President Bush's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform back in 2005, have been arguing for a switch to a territorial tax system in which we don't even try to tax the overseas earnings of U.S. GDP and corporate taxes 6%; in the third quarter of 2011, profits were up to 13.1% corporations.

GDP 13

GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year.

Transportation 8

Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

As Shell, Chevron, Total, the IEA, and a host of other serious observers have openly declared since 2005, the age of cheap and easy oil has ended. We have ample historical evidence that when petroleum expenditures reach 5% of GDP, recession typically follows. GDP in 2002 to a painful 9.8% And that ledge is getting narrower.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9