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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. But let’s go further on education. Gender inequality is a reality.

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Is Entrepreneurship As Popular As We Think?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, in the United States, data reveals that entrepreneurship has declined by around half between 1978 and 2011, with this especially pronounced among the share of young firms, as employment at young firms fell from nearly half of the workforce in the 1980s to just 39% by 2006. in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

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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%. And the majority of the opinions are "left" or "right" New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was on Oprah last week discussing education reform. It’s common to hear someone say about the U.S., “We We have the best health care system in the world.”

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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. Countries' levels of global connectedness are impacted both by their domestic and their foreign policies.

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Oil’s Fall Is a Challenge for Gulf Economies, but Also an Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

The 2000s saw expanding state budgets and welfare payments, in part linked to a decade of rising global oil prices that peaked at a stable range of around $100–110 per barrel between 2011 and mid 2014. After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% of GDP in 2015 and 2016. in 2015 and 3.2%

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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. Here's an excerpt from our Club EWI resource, the free 50-page 2011 Independent Investor eBook , which quotes one of Prechter's research papers. Would you buy stocks? continued).

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What's Next For Guangdong?

Harvard Business Review

While Guangdong's exports accounted for as much as 37% of China's exports by 2000, its share dropped to 28% in 2011. The province's exports growth rate, which was 26% in 2010, fell to 22% in the first nine months of 2011, and it has continued to decline ever since. Look at the data.

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