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Why Are Workers Are Getting A Smaller Piece Of The Economic Pie?

The Horizons Tracker

New research from MIT sets out to understand precisely why the labor share of GDP has fallen from 67% in 1980 to just 59% today. The discontent from economists has mainly arisen due to the remarkable stability of labor’s share of GDP throughout the 20th century. “That’s our key point.” ” Superstar firms.

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What Fatherhood Can Teach Us About Leadership

LDRLB

Countries represent 65% of global GDP and include Brazil, Canada, China, Chile, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, United Kingdom and The United States). Nagato Kimura’s Kinoya fish company was destroyed by a devastating earthquake and Tsunami in 2011.

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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. Women have a few powerful tools to find their way to success and leadership.

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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. A decline in disruption. Hype run wild.

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

We all have a stake in the infrastructure surrounding us — the roads, buildings, power lines, and telephone networks that we rely on daily. of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. an estimated $100 billion per year.

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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%. 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. That was down from 9.7%

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Globalization in the World We Live in Now: World 3.0

Harvard Business Review

So far, 2011 has been a remarkable year. With events like those that have changed the power dynamics throughout the Arab world, or the tsunami in Japan that disrupted many global supply chains, it's easy to think that the world is becoming ever more connected and interdependent.