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Is An Ethnically Diverse Founding Team Key To Startup Success?

The Horizons Tracker

This represents a growth in global GDP of 6%, which to put that into context is slightly higher than the recent economic forecast from the World Bank of the hit to global GDP from COVID-19. The researchers examined data from all European venture capital deals between 2010 and 2020 that saw more than $1 million raised.

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“Interpersonal Connectedness” One Factor in Metric to Replace GDP

Michael Lee Stallard

In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. Including connection as a component in a measure of national success would be wise. Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Copyright © 2010 Michael Lee Stallard why is everyone smiling?

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Did Relative Deprivation Drive The Arab Spring?

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a scale in which a happy person might be expected to have a degree of economic success, while living in a stable democracy with high levels of freedom. Indeed, those countries also appeared happier than citizens of countries with higher GDP per capita.

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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 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? Click Here.

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The Economic and Social Impact of Language

Mills Scofield

This has profound implications for our innovation and economic success and national security. 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.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

My five-year study of the global workforce at Rakuten, the Japan-based e-commerce powerhouse, gave me a close-up look at what will drive success for this new type of global worker. Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. These five attitudes and behaviors are what make a successful global employee.