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What Flight Data Can Tell Us About Economic Health

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers say that the aviation sector is crucial to the economy, and contributes approximately 3% of overall GDP in both the US and UK. “These data points provided the information we needed to reconstruct 67 million flights between July 2016 and December 2018.” Flight data. ” .” ”

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Should The Brightest Talent Coalesce In ‘Cognitive Hubs’?

The Horizons Tracker

The issue came to the fore during the 2016 presidential election, with the 472 counties won by Hillary Clinton accounting for around 64% of GDP, thus easily outpacing the 2,584 counties won by Donald Trump.

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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. Gender inequality, as we can see, is a reality and not only in the developing countries.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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

Harvard Business Review

The price of this fast-track, oil-fueled development has been the region’s high dependence on oil export revenues (and in the case of Qatar, also of liquified natural gas, of which it is currently the largest producer in the world). After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% of GDP in 2015 and 2016.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

Development economists over the ages have puzzled about why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the long term. For our research , we looked at 71 emerging economies and identified 18 that achieved rapid and consistent GDP growth over the past 50 and 20 years. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images.

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most and Least Resilient Economies

Harvard Business Review

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

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