Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Analysts have already reduced forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% Japan's economic policy makers are being put to the test once again. Bold recovery plans would seem to be in order, but how that response is financed holds great import for Japan's economic future. for the second quarter. on Tuesday.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

A major challenge in business and policy spheres is to understand the environments that are most conducive to innovation. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. The competitiveness of the U.S. One way to do that is to look to history.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

current account deficit, which measures the gap between what the country takes in from export income, investment income, and cash transfers and what it pays out, peaked at nearly 6% of GDP in 2006 and was down to 3.1% of GDP in 2011. But it will be the end of the remarkably free-wheeling era in global finance and U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. Indeed, as part of an effort to learn from Germany about effective innovation, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

With Greek public debt already at more than 140% of GDP even before the bailout, it's reasonable to ask if the strategy can even work. More in danger would be small counties like Portugal and Ireland, whose public debt-to-GDP levels are between 90% and 100% and that have fairly bad unemployment levels already.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

“Culture” can sound like a catchall, a convenient way to place the blame outside the realm of policy, but I am talking about one specific dimension of culture: avoiding uncertainty. This suggests that in addition to short-term policy changes, Greece needs a longer-term cultural shift. And it all starts in school.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% Contrary to what many economists then believed, Friedman argued that, higher inflation does not reduce unemployment, and that the best monetary policy was one that kept prices stable. Why can the U.S. In 2011, U.S. Imports surged.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Georgiou’s crime was that back in 2009, he strictly applied globally accepted international rules in reporting the Greek government’s budget deficit, which had the effect of increasing it by just under 3% to a whopping 15% of GDP. Calculating this debt in “present” (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. Just to keep pace with anticipated global GDP growth, the world needs to spend $57 trillion , or on average $3.2 The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates that investment equivalent to 7.9%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

And because banking sectors in developing countries give fewer loans to farmers (compared to the share of agriculture in GDP), investments by both farmers and large corporations are still limited. To attract more financing and investment in agriculture, the risks need to be reduced by governments.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

The New York Times recently published a 2000-word article trying to divine the likely policies of Summers versus Yellen. We think relative monetary policy expertise is far from the key factor that should bias us toward one over the other. The financial industry accounts for about 8% of GDP, but about 32% of corporate profits.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

they account for 50% of employment and 45% of GDP. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter. For instance, recent Dow Jones research on venture-backed companies in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Foreign Policy reports in this intriguing list of the 10 most overlooked stories of 2012. Oil was discovered in the Congo worth about 28 times its GDP. FINANCING THAT VACATION HOME IN VANUATU. Brazil became a net importer of people. EU member Cypress turned to Moscow for its bailout funds. Nothing could be easier.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

But nations are catalyzing global winners and losers by the policies they make. The GDP of China — the world's largest — in most centuries never exceeded $100 billion. was recording its GDP in hundreds of millions of dollars — not billions. I've traveled around the world and have seen smart people everywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. The Greek problem isn’t, as Krugman insists, a classic problem of macroeconomic policy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

It seems an inconsequential event — no new international alliances are formed, no policies will change within their home nation, and the young couple doesn't seem all that interesting. GDP or around $50 billion. Those are actions that princes of finance should leave to the real princes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Like Japan, China combines statist industrial policies with export-oriented development. By comparison, China's FDI stock equals 8% of its GDP; more than 70% of that FDI consists of wholly foreign-owned enterprises (as opposed to joint ventures); and foreign firms produce half of China's exports and more than 90% of China's high-tech exports.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

That Greece with a population of a mere 11 million and a GDP of $300 billion (only 2% of the Eurozone economies) can create systemic risk for the world speaks volumes about the downside of global interdependence. On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Based on frequent conversations with Iran-focused multinational companies, there are five notable challenges that deserve immediate attention in order to reap the benefits of the Iranian market: Updating global compliance policies. However, remaining U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

Four years ago, GE initiated a strategy to compete more effectively in Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world in terms of GDP. At a company that’s playing development to win, business units are leading the effort, enabled by sales, marketing, finance, supply chain management, CSR, and social investment. It’s neither.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The field attracts the most students, enjoys the attention of policy-makers and journalists, and gains notice, both positive and negative, from other scientists.". Meaning that you can never get truly scientific answers out of GDP or unemployment numbers. I tend to think it doesn't apply for macroeconomics in general.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. It displays a healthier, more transparent dialogue that can advance public policy and catalyze investment. “I see the sparkle in the eyes of a few.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Ireland is not a role model for austerity policies, but rather a cautionary tale. Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. The parallels between Spain and Ireland are striking.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Economist Ronald Coase proposed auctioning off segments of the electromagnetic spectrum in late 1950s, a policy idea that was later adopted in the 1990s. Economists and finance. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S. Economists and big data.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. Imagine all the veins in your body suddenly shrinking and collapsing — Avada Kedavra!!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

GDP while undertaking 40.9% Can the United States craft policies that sustain an environment in which multinationals expand their activities in America as a base for serving the global economy? Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

GDP over the past decade might well have grown by an additional $1 trillion if the whole economy had performed at the level our long-term stalwarts delivered — and generated more than five million additional jobs over this period. percentage points of GDP growth per year). We calculate that U.S. Where Do We Go from Here?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Each of these five features contains both upsides and challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% Thus, technological innovation in these sectors tends to be financed by the government and carried out within government or quasi-government laboratories. One, the content of policies matters. in 2000 to 2.0% in 2015 and is on track to reach a targeted 2.5%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The latest employment statistics did little to allay fears of a jobless recovery in the US — a situation in which GDP growth and corporate profits return to healthy levels, but unemployment remains high. This is important work to do, since it can influence both investment and policy decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

“Asia pivot” policy: Americans think of international relations like a movie, imagining that we can hit the pause button when we need to and then push play when we want to return. But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. And once again, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In 2015 real GDP per capita was $56,000 in the United States. The real GDP per capita in that same year was only $47,000 in Germany, $41,000 in France and the United Kingdom, and just $36,000 in Italy, adjusting for purchasing power. Each year, the United States produces more per person than most other advanced economies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It’s true of GDP. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

At nearly 4% of GDP , Israel spends more on R&D — public and private combined — than any nation in the world.) ” Senor and Singer also cite immigration policy and a culture that tolerates risk-taking and failure as contributing to Israel’s startup success. Many explanations have been offered.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Political sentiment has turned against globalization and the political and economic policies that promoted it. As this mood is translated into policy, the structural advantages of multinational corporations are coming under threat from five main sources. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% But this ascendancy is under threat.

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