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What Greece Has to Do Now: Fix Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

A few verbal tweaks (such as renaming the “Troika” — which consists of the EU, the IMF, and the ECB — the “Institutions”) were given as a political concession to the newly elected government, which had created high expectations with its electorate. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense.

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What China’s 13th Five-Year Plan Means for Business

Harvard Business Review

China’s Communist Party recently approved the 13th Five-Year Plan , designed to guide the country’s social, political, and economic development through the second half of this decade. What is the significance of the plan? What are the main characteristics of the latest plan? Companies need to act now.

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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. More radically, they could agree to restructure global economic institutions or change the agenda of existing institutions. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.