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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Gender inequality is a reality.

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New Report: We're Not As Connected As We Think

Harvard Business Review

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.

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How to Bring Apple's Overseas Cash Hoard Home

Harvard Business Review

Kleinbard in wrote in a 2007 Tax Notes article called "Throw Territorial Taxation From the Train" (it's so far behind a paywall that I can't even link to it). GDP and corporate taxes 6%; in the third quarter of 2011, profits were up to 13.1% of GDP and corporate taxes down to 2.7%. firms," attorney Edward D. tax burden.

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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

By 2007, Brazil had reclaimed its position as the number-one destination of foreign investment in the region from Mexico, according to CEPAL , one of the five regional commissions of the UN; Brazil also represented 30–40% of a typical multinational’s Latin America portfolio, according to our internal client polling.

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Name the Trade Rep, Mr. President

Harvard Business Review

Doing so would show that he places the highest priority on both the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations — started in 2011 and slated to end this year — and the newly launched free trade negotiations between the US and EU which are scheduled (optimistically) to be completed before the 2016 election.

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Decades Later The USA Health Care System is Still a Deadly Disease for Our Economy

Curious Cat

This specific example also highlights what I classified as a new deadly disease in 2007 – the broken patent and trademark system. “We do not think that charging U.S. residents more than anyone else in the world meets the obligation to make the invention available to U.S. residents on reasonable terms,” said the letter, which had Sen.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. I was looking for what you teach back in January 2007 and couldn’t find it anywhere.