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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

According to UNCTAD’s Technology and Innovation Report 2023 , there is a risk of increased economic inequality as developed countries are likely to benefit the most from green technologies, including artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and electric vehicles.

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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

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It looks at everything from the legal infrastructure, the ease of creating a business, the quality of academia and availability of finance. The remaining 5% are believed to contribute to over 40% of the region’s GDP, so there is a clear incentive to do much better at commercializing the exceptional research being done across Europe.

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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. Becoming future-ready. Organizational agility.

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Debt and the Future of the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

During the financial crisis, the world came to the apparently shocking realization that debt financing entails risks. To illustrate, most press reports peg the current U.S. trillion, roughly 10% of gross domestic product (GDP). Gross public debt is $14 trillion, or over 95% of GDP. deficit at $1.5 trillion than $1.5

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Promoting Entrepreneurship in Vulnerable Economies

Harvard Business Review

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. Chief among these are access to capital, access to markets, and access to networks and skills development. SME owners face a slew of obstacles in conflict zones.

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Greece Needs to Be Honest About the Numbers

Harvard Business Review

Given his former position, you would imagine that Georgiou’s crime would involve falsifying national economic data in order to cover up tax shenanigans or to fool the markets into thinking that the Greek economy was healthier than it was. You would be wrong. Calculating this debt in “present” (i.e.,

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Reinhart, Rogoff, and How the Macroeconomic Sausage Is Made

Harvard Business Review

I couldn''t help but think back to that as controversy erupted this week over Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff''s oft-cited three-year-old finding that economic growth plummets when a country''s debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 90%. growth in countries with debt/GDP of more than 90%, they came up with 2.2%

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