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Net Zero Efforts Are Slowly Paying Off

The Horizons Tracker

Between 2000 and 2010, emissions went up by 2.3% per year until 2014, and then dropped even further to 0.8% Reducing emissions During this time, we’ve still been putting more greenhouse gases into the air, but the rate at which we’re doing it has slowed down in recent years. each year, but that slowed to 1.3%

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How The Financial Crisis Saw Support For Populists Rise

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Between September 2008 and April 2010, which was when national elections took place in the country, the forint depreciated by 23%, while household debt rose by 4%. of the vote in 2006, this soared to 17% in 2010 and 20% in 2014. This period also saw a distinct rightward shift in Hungarian politics.

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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

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A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. The study found that the share of entrepreneurs fell by around half between 1985 and 2014, with just 4% of households containing an entrepreneur by the end of the study period. Positive or negative?

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Rural Students Disadvantaged When It Comes To University

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After researching data from around 800,000 English students starting university in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016, they found that cities appear to provide an “escalator effect” into these universities that don’t exist in rural areas.

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

Great Leadership By Dan

Learn to assess what skills you lack and what skills you should outsource to set yourself up for the greatest amount of success Derek Lidow is the former CEO of International Rectifier and the founder of iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which he sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS.

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How Telemedicine Can Ease ER Overcrowding

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The researchers used data from all emergency visits in New York state between 2010 and 2014, and found a significant reduction in the average length of stay and wait time when telemedicine was used in the ER.

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Research Explores Why Refugees Move After Arriving In A Country

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The researchers tracked around 450,000 people who had settled in the United States between 2000 and 2014, and found that many refugees move to a different state shortly after their arrival in the search for better jobs or better social networks (but not more generous welfare!). The analysis reveals that U.S.