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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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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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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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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. In 2016, the U.S. 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. spent a staggering $3.2

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The Potential and Pitfalls of Doing Business in Cuba

Harvard Business Review

Fixed capital investment in Cuba represents just 10% of GDP , which is half the regional average. Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. This has been driven by three factors: Lack of capital investment. This is why U.S. This is why U.S.

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The Obama Administration’s Roadmap for AI Policy

Harvard Business Review

On October 12, 2016, President Obama’s Executive Office published two reports that laid out its plans for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). And somebody reminded me that the space program was half a percent of GDP. This depends partly on how long it takes to develop talent domestically. ” The U.S.

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How the Philippines Became Tech Startups’ New Source for Talent

Harvard Business Review

It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016. That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion. A great web developer with at least five years’ experience can cost less than $25,000 a year. Working for a venture-backed start-up is the new status symbol.