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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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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. True, Americans do well at inventing.

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Financial Fears, Flows, and Globalization

Harvard Business Review

As readers of this blog already know, markets are far less integrated internationally than popular views of globalization presume. Their conclusions are corroborated not just by empirical experience but by experimental research on asset markets by Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith , among others. in 2010 with further increases forecast.

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Why CEOs Should Watch the Royal Wedding

Harvard Business Review

Within the confines of good taste, we hope, the Brits are marketing the heck out of the wedding. A 2010 study showed that the public cost of supporting the monarchy was more than $55 million in 2009. GDP or around $50 billion. Those are actions that princes of finance should leave to the real princes.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective. But haven't we heard this before?

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What Greece Has to Do Now: Fix Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

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. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense.

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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

GDP while undertaking 40.9% competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7% of all U.S.