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Did Relative Deprivation Drive The Arab Spring?

The Horizons Tracker

These were then compared with the 2010 SFH values, and the comparison revealed that those countries with the lowest-intensity protests were also those where citizens were subjectively happiest. Indeed, those countries also appeared happier than citizens of countries with higher GDP per capita.

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The Economic and Social Impact of Language

Mills Scofield

Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. And, in 2010, Arne Duncan announced that 95% of American college students in language classes were taking European languages. Less than 100 American students were studying a language spoken by 193 million people in the world.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees. In comparison, the U.S., The Japanese employees in the Tokyo headquarters communicated in Japanese, the Americans in the U.S.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. Specifically, we estimate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China will spend $41.5 At present, some 32% of China's GDP can be attributed to domestic consumption. trillion to $6.2

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Even for Companies, the U.S. Is Split Between Haves and Have-Nots

Harvard Business Review

The comparison is imprecise, of course, but nevertheless suggestive. Economywide ROIC has trended downward since the 1980s, falling from above 6% in the mid-1960s to 5% in 1980, then to 3% in 1990, and to only a bit more than 1% by 2010. Overall corporate profits are at record highs of roughly 21% of GDP.

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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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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% From 2010-2015, the share of China-origin patents among all patents granted by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) was only 2.2%. A comparison between China and India provides a stark contrast. in 2000 to 2.0% ” But what’s the effect?