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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. But for women to succeed as entrepreneurs or as managers, other tools are useful, if not essential.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

With fewer breakthrough products to sell overseas, exports as a share of GDP have stagnated at 11%, while imports have soared, forcing the U.S. From 1998 to 2007, earnings for a US worker with a BA rose only 0.34% adjusted for inflation. The economic value of much innovation accrued to China instead. real decline in wages.".