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The 4 Types of Cities and How to Prepare Them for the Future

Harvard Business Review

Slow demographic growth in developed economies creates a zero-sum situation (which is part of why the licensed cabs vs Uber/Lyft contest is so heated). Implications for city leaders: Leaders should loosen restrictions so that private finance can invest in improvements to physical infrastructure, to better use what already exists.

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Doing Business in a Post-Fidel Cuba

Harvard Business Review

With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America). Second, Cuba confronts the difficult task of unburdening its largely stalled state-led economy. How to know where the economy is heading.