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How Skills Will Be Crucial As We Adapt To The Post-Covid World

The Horizons Tracker

Last year online learning platform Coursera released their first Global Skills Index to try and understand the changing nature of skills development around the world. This surge not only reflects the ongoing interest in digital skills development, but also some of the softer skills that I’ve identified as key in past articles.

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Amazing AI Facts That Could Change The World

Strategy Driven

But Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that AI will have a bigger impact on the development of human life. The demand for data scientists will be over 50% more than the supply, making it a VERY smart career path to follow. PWC believes global GDP will rise by 14% by 2030 due to AI. Electricity transformed our world. JPMorgan Chase.

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Are We Still Attracted By The Bright Lights?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers developed a dynamic spatial model that includes factors that contribute to higher wages (labor market agglomeration), higher rents, the costs associated with moving, and other locational preferences. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4%

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Low-Skilled Immigration Is Needed To Overcome The Western Worker Crunch

The Horizons Tracker

Ignoring the need While politicians increasingly like to adopt a hard line against immigration, the reality is that most developed countries are in dire need of it. Meanwhile, the ifo think tank recently revealed that nearly half of German companies are currently unable to find the skilled workers they need.

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More Women in the Workforce Could Raise GDP by 5%

Harvard Business Review

Women are the primary caregivers for children, the elderly, and the sick, and this burden hampers their economic development. Eldercare is an especially potent drag on women professionals, hitting them just as their careers are reaching their full potential. In Japan, such initiatives could increase GDP by 9%.

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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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Adopt an Immigrant Mindset to Advance Your Career

Harvard Business Review

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. The immigrant mentality has proven time and again to accelerate careers and build enterprise. The companies noted in this study had combined revenues of $4.2

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