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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

The Horizons Tracker

A common sticking point in progressing climate negotiations is getting developed and developing nations to work together. of national GDP. C is exhausting while we need to give sufficient consideration of global equality of socioeconomic developments,” they explain. “Global carbon space for limiting 1.5°C

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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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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. It also summarizes patterns of connectedness at the regional level. Why does all of this matter?

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Languages Your Company Should Speak (But Has Never Heard)

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. of the world''s GDP. In other words, according to his analysis, $12.5 Communication Customers Global business GDP' out of every $100 corresponds to someone who does not speak a major world language.

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China Wants the U.S. to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff, Too

Harvard Business Review

China is intent on maximizing access to and control over the world's natural resources and it will turn to developing nations to secure them. They know how to contemplate 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year programs and achieve year-on-year GDP growth that averages no less than 8 percent. China thinks in long-term timeframes. trillion to $6.2

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Health Reform Lessons from Mexico

Harvard Business Review

Throughout the world, countries at all levels of economic development and with all types of political systems have embarked in a creative search for the elusive goal of universal coverage. By December of 2010, 40 million people were enrolled in it, and the country is on track to achieving the goal of universal coverage this year.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5 times global GDP). Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP.

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