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How Workplace Equality Can Drive The Economy (With A Little Help From AI)

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, the authors believe that a whopping 25% of the economic growth achieved in the United States between 1960 and 2010 can be attributed to greater racial and gender equality in the workplace, and believe it could even be as high as 40%. This would allow them to explore how balance in the workplace contributes towards GDP.

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The Economic and Social Impact of Language

Mills Scofield

You can read more here about the impact of not changing our education and economic systems. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. Education and literacy? As she starts her senior year at Brown , her sense of urgency is increasing.as

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Are You Fretting over the Economy?

Coaching Tip

But please allow us to suggest this: Belief that the GDP and other economic measures drive stock market trends is completely and utterly false. Suppose you were to possess perfect knowledge that next quarter's GDP will be the strongest rising quarter for a span of 15 years, guaranteed. Would you buy stocks? Would you buy stocks?

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The Joy of Facts

Next Level Blog

leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. Posted by Scott Eblin on October 04, 2010 in Books , Current Affairs | Permalink Technorati Tags : facts , health care , health care reform , life expectancy , Patrick Moynihan , T.R. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Based on what facts?

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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. The annual demand for tactile robots is doubling, and by 2020, the market for robots will be nearly 10 times what it was in 2010. Automation technology has come on leaps and bound in recent years.

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. To find out, we mobilized a large-scale data set on international migration from 1960 to 2010, using information on the nationality of the immigrants to construct indexes of birthplace diversity.

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Where Does Your Nation Rank on Wellbeing?

Harvard Business Review

If you are familiar with the Legatum Prosperity Index, you know it is an effort to look beyond GDP. Education (access to education, quality of education, and human capital). Doing so, however, produces insights on vital questions the answers to which are not yet (and may never be) reflected in GDP.