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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). Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15.

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When More Women Join the Workforce, Wages Rise — Including for Men

Harvard Business Review

women’s participation in the labor market has nearly doubled, from 34% of working age women (age 16 and older) in the labor force in 1950 to almost 57% in 2016. Looking at Census data from 1980 to 2010, I studied how women’s participation in the workforce influences wage growth in approximately 250 U.S. In the U.S.,

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. A third of VC investments in Europe were focused on the UK in the first quarter of 2016, according to CBInsights. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. billion as compared to $4.4

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. The UK Treasury’s April 2016 report about the economic pain caused by Brexit, 200 pages long and generally well executed, is an example: It was dismissed as “gobbledygook.” distributors, retailers, and so on. in the U.S.,