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“Interpersonal Connectedness” One Factor in Metric to Replace GDP

Michael Lee Stallard

In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Copyright © 2010 Michael Lee Stallard Military Gamification in Everything? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Wise Economic Decision Making

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percentage points from GDP, based on the average of 2010's first three quarters. Their intricate mathematical models largely failed to predict the 2008 financial crisis. In 2005, housing accounted for 6.1 percent of economic activity in the U.S. Last year, inflation-adjusted investment in new homes probably subtracted 0.17

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. By December 16, 2008, interest rates were close to 0% in the U.S. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S.,

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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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Financial Fears, Flows, and Globalization

Harvard Business Review

For capital flows, the historical data suggest that policymakers should start paying attention when the absolute values of capital accounts add up to 3% of GDP and start getting worried when they exceed 4%. in 2008 to 3.9% in 2010 with further increases forecast. in 2008 to 3.9% in 2010 with further increases forecast.

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What's Next For Guangdong?

Harvard Business Review

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. That's why Guangdong's population of migrant workers declined by 3% every year between 2005 and 2010.

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