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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. We calculate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China and India will have consumed goods and services worth a total of $64 trillion. trillion to $6.2

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

Modi’s war on cash is not without international precedent: Singapore, for example, withdrew its largest currency recently ; the European Central Bank eliminated the 500-euro bank note ; South Korea plans to eliminate at least all coins by 2020. And yet India’s initiative had the potential for chaos.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. MBO Partners, for example, predicted in 2011 that by 2020, “70 million people, more than 50 percent of the private workforce, will be independent.” ” That gets the total to an estimated 17.7 “The household survey is really good,” continues King.

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