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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

However, developing countries may not be able to take advantage of these opportunities unless their national governments and the international community take decisive action. Developing countries must capture more of the value being created in this technological revolution to grow their economies.”

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How to Win with AI and Automation

HR Digest

Developments in digital technologies, inclusive of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, are estimated by some to create the potential for a tremendous reduction in the volume of work. Across the OECD, spending on worker training and development has been declining over the last twenty years. IMPROVING WORK MARKET DYNAMISM.

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

Harvard Business Review

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies have achieved a remarkable transformation over the past 30 years. Saudi Arabia in particular is not only a major player on oil markets and within OPEC, but also the region’s largest economy that shares its vulnerability to sliding global oil prices with its smaller GCC neighbours.

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4 Things Your Innovation Efforts Shouldn’t Focus On

Harvard Business Review

GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. It develops the talent inside, focusing on a few great things. Jobs invested $150 million in developing the iPhone ; Tim Cook has invested almost seven times that in Didi Chuxing. Investment in fundamental science, the R, has dropped from more than 2% of U.S. Related Video.

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How Big a Competitive Threat Is China, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Like Japan, China combines statist industrial policies with export-oriented development. Most important, China is developing in a far more challenging international environment than Japan faced in the second half of the 20th century. And like Japan, China has logged several decades of rapid economic growth.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands.

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Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs

Harvard Business Review

And yet federally funded research and development — creativity, institutionalized — is down 20% as a share of America's GDP since the late 1980s. Creativity is the most essential skill for navigating an increasingly complex world — or so said 1,500 CEOs across 60 countries in a recent survey by IBM. Take a walk.