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Africa’s Unique Opportunity to Promote Inclusive Growth

Harvard Business Review

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. “As I travel across Africa, I notice two things about how we’re growing,” Adesina told me recently. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013.

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Four Major Changes in Global Prosperity

Harvard Business Review

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. And so what do we observe from this vantage point?

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Decades Later The USA Health Care System is Still a Deadly Disease for Our Economy

Curious Cat

Related: USA Health Care Spending 2013: $2.9 of GDP – The Growing Market for International Travel for Medical Care – CEOs Want Health-Care Reform (2009) – Can We Expect the Health Care System in the USA to Become Less Damaging to the Economy? We have to do better. trillion $9,255 per person and 17.4%

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

Traveling and living abroad seems to broaden individuals’ perspectives while also improving creativity. A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers. Perhaps U.S. economy on globalization.