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How Managerial Quality Affects Energy Usage In Manufacturing Firms

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, research has highlighted a direct correlation between process improvement and energy reductions. This narrative was further explored in a recent study that also set to take into account things like energy prices alongside the quality of management. of global GDP. Environmental costs.

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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

The Horizons Tracker

A common sticking point in progressing climate negotiations is getting developed and developing nations to work together. They then projected the emissions in each country using a number of longer-term energy scenarios while also estimating the costs of decarbonization. of national GDP.

GDP 112
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The Economic Factors That Prompt People To Migrate

The Horizons Tracker

The report also highlights the considerable personal costs people bare when they move abroad. “The core issue is economics, at the end of the day, and this is where policymakers need to be focusing their energy,” the authors say. ” Making the move. Various routes. Paths forward.

GDP 68
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Post-Covid Cities Need To Be Smart Cities

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, pre-Covid, Tokyo alone was estimated to have a GDP of around $1.6 trillion in GDP alone by 2035. “The stakeholders promoting smart-city development will benefit from the crisis and use their experience from the temporary shutdown to accelerate digital transformation in their cities,” he writes.

GDP 128
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Is The Single Market Preventing Digital Champions In Europe?

The Horizons Tracker

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. Those who say the cost is dropping often point to the dramatically falling costs of computing power.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. One step in reversing this trend is to start treating hours like dollars, with a real opportunity cost.