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Do We Need A Recruitment Agency For Robots?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, a 1% increase in investment correlates with a growth in GDP per capita of 0.03%. In PPP terms, the US invested $86 billion in 2015, which is roughly 62 times the amount invested in the UK in the same period. Suffice to say, investment in robotics and automation has not been spread equally around the world.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

By our measures, companies that were managed for the long term added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than their peers from 2001 to 2015. These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation. percentage points of GDP growth per year). We calculate that U.S. As noted earlier, if all public U.S.