Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

And growth reduces the government’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which facilitates and cheapens future government borrowing. The problem is that population aging is itself a cause for a decline in both GDP and per-capita GDP. The active labor force declines over time, and so does GDP.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

fiscal cliff debacle is being played up in the media as if the entire US economy will cease to exist come January 2, 2013. US annual GDP is just over $15 trillion. trillion) over ten years is just over seven percent of one year's GDP. But 2013 may just look a lot like this regardless of intent. The big scary number of $1.2

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Going back to the low-GDP growth, low-job growth path we were on in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis will mean stagnation—and continued rising discontent about incomes that don’t advance and income inequalities that continue to grow. Other options are also less than desirable.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The plan is expected to outline policies intended to ensure that China continues to see average annual GDP growth of 7% through this decade, the growth rate required to meet Premier Li Keqiang’s stated goal of doubling GDP by 2020. What Needs to Change.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

For example, on the Indonesian archipelago, supply chain and distribution logistics present serious challenges — with logistics costs at 24% of GDP, compared with the regional average range of 9-11%. However, there are some risks. Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

A systematic analysis of mid-2013 data on the world’s largest firms by revenue, the Fortune Global 500, shows that at that time only three non-Indian firms were led by Indian CEOs: Arcelor Mittal (Lakshmi Mittal), Deutsche Bank (Anshu Jain), and PepsiCo (Indra Nooyi).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections , the current proposed fiscal measures, if implemented, would automatically slash the federal budget deficit by $503 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. At present, some 32% of China's GDP can be attributed to domestic consumption. percent in November, down from 11.6

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

Today, March 20, 2013, marks the first ever International Day of Happiness. It was hosted by Bhutan, a small but visionary country which famously uses Gross National Happiness (GNH) instead of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to index its progress.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

The existence of this parallel economy is a substantial drag on the Indian economy: According to recently released data , only about 1% of Indians paid taxes on their earnings in 2013. Official estimates from India’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) on GDP growth have shown that the economy grew at 7% in the quarter ending December 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. So we started digging. We pored over the surveys and documentation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

higher GDP per capita than countries with average literacy scores. To take India as an example, as we do in our report, given an annual birth rate of 27 million, and a GDP per employed person of $8,939, it is simple math to calculate the “value gap” that results from that lack of access to quality education.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

GDP growth of only 1.3% in 2013 even led to talk of a “growth crisis” for the Russian economy. As the chart above shows, though, growth has settled into a much lower trend since the Great Recession. Energy prices have been flat, and the inefficient state of the rest of the economy has become a more noticeable drag.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

In 2013 Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, urged the U.S. To provide evidence that the effect of ENDAs is causal, we controlled for a variety of company characteristics (such as size, profitability, and growth opportunities) and state characteristics (such as GDP, population, education, and political balance).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

A 2013 survey shows the median earnings for men outside of refugee camps (where they’re not allowed to work) was $160 per month, much less than the Turkish minimum monthly wage of around $400. That’s one reason why Turkey’s GDP grew by 2.9%

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

But in 2013 it was comfortably beaten by Singapore and Hong Kong and by four other countries: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland. Take a look at this chart, which plots country competitiveness scores as per the Global Competitiveness Index against the proportion of GDP spent on welfare. And it is certainly in the top ten.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The Canadian dollar, for example, depreciated 25% between 2013 and 2016, yet Canada’s trade balance remained virtually unchanged. Price changes (of currency and goods) can be observed nearly in real time, whereas fundamental macro variables such as GDP and its components become available with just a few months’ delay.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In terms of inflation-adjusted dollars and as a portion of GDP, U.S. As of 2013, median income was at levels first attained 24 years earlier, in 1989. As the chart below shows, the U.S. Large companies in the United States are prospering alongside the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, the success of big firms in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

January 2013: Wind power is now the number 3 source of energy in China (passing nuclear). As those tree-huggers at McKinsey and PwC UK have calculated, we need to decarbonize at a rapid rate — about 5 percent less carbon per dollar of GDP every year until 2050. stimulus plan that funded clean tech, but times 10).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Last week Chen Demin, China's commerce minister, offered an upbeat outlook for China's overall 2013 economy , forecasting steady improvement in domestic consumption and investment, and predicting that foreign direct investment over the coming year would also remain stable.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013. Six years after the global recession began, many parts of the world are still struggling to achieve growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

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. More than 15 percent of the country's investment goes into real estate, and around 12 percent of GDP comes from property-related industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. The limitations of GDP have long been recognized. Academics have also joined the post-GDP party. This past Friday, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. Focusing on data such as population growth, inflation, and GDP growth is a way to anticipate market developments. This is far lower than rival oil exporters such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia , and Kuwait. Finding the right local partners.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Average compensation in 2013 across the advanced industries sector was $90,000—nearly double that of workers in other industries. Together, these industries have an outsized impact on the U.S. They employ 12.3 million people, or 9% of total U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The industry makes up approximately 6% of Brazil’s GDP. From 1993 to 2013 the cattle herd in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest — covering most of country’s northern region — expanded by nearly 200%, to more than 60 million head. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

According to a 2013 Mastercard study , India was in the “Inception” category of both absolute level of cashlessness and the trajectory of change. Moreover, the value of notes and coins in circulation as a percentage of GDP in India was 12.04%, compared to 3.93% in Brazil, 5.32% in Mexico, and 3.72% in South Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Over recent years, governments too have increasingly begun to realize that focusing on GDP growth alone does not necessarily lead to improvements in living standards of their citizens. Put simply, what’s good for increasing GDP may not be good for the long-term betterment of society.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

We must aspire to a statistically significant increase in charitable giving as a percentage of GDP. was $ 335 billion in 2013 , but only about 15% of that, or $50 billion, went to health and human services causes – 85% went to religion, higher education and hospitals. $50 Charitable giving has remained stuck at 2% of GDP in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

The bailout was small compared to the sums the Troika gave Greece (€240 billion in two rounds), Spain (€100 billion), and Ireland (€85 billion), and the latter was a significant percentage of Cyprus’ GDP of €17.7 in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% billion in 2012. in 2012; 5.4% of its youth without jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe. in 2002, and should touch 2.0% by 2020, according to the World Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

trillion in 2013, which accounted for 17% of U.S. Health care spending in the United States reached $3.2 This is almost twice as much as the OECD average of 9%, yet health outcomes in the U.S. are not twice as good as in these other countries. In fact, many outcomes are worse. For example, life expectancy at birth in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , a 2013 dollar has one-tenth the purchasing power of the 1950 version. Since then the focus has moved on to inflation or, recently, nominal-GDP targeting. This even though a dollar is almost certain to buy you less in a few years than it does now.

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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. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Here is a brief synopsis of what we missed: Under Chinese stewardship, a new and potentially disruptive player in the development banking landscape, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which was initially proposed in 2013 by President Xi Jingping, gathered steam. ” It has attracted 57 founding member countries.

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