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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

The Horizons Tracker

Tech support The researchers analyzed the various trends that are driving emissions in the 59 countries where emissions grew faster than average between 2010 and 2018 (although they notably excluded India and China from their analysis). of national GDP. The costs involved in this effort are also significant, and amount to up to 4.1%

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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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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. or China should get the gold medal.

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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

We calculate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China and India will have consumed goods and services worth a total of $64 trillion. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million. Chinese consumers will spend $41.5 trillion over this period, with annual expenditures rising from $2.0

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China, America, and Copycat Economics

Harvard Business Review

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. pace in the first quarter of 2010. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. GDP growth could hit nearly 5% in 2016. What are the underlying drivers of this trend?

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.