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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 are historically underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

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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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How the Philippines Became Tech Startups’ New Source for Talent

Harvard Business Review

The Southeast Asia city’s rapid growth echoes the story of the so-called “unicorns” — technology start-ups that rapidly grew to a billion-dollar valuation and beyond. It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns.

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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. Here are the highlights.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. Focusing on data such as population growth, inflation, and GDP growth is a way to anticipate market developments. companies can’t do business there.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

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. Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. Dinesh’s grandfather developed complications between the checks and passed away.