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Study Suggests Global North Still Appropriates Wealth From South

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The study uses environmental input-output data alongside footprint analysis to explore the scale and value of the resource drain from the global South between 1990 and 2015. trillion during 2015 alone, which is enough to end extreme poverty 70 times over. This was accompanied by 21 exajoules of energy and 392 billion hours of work.

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Why Is Technology Not Producing Productivity Improvements?

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Official data reveals that while GDP grew by around 2.7% After all, in a world in which so much of what the tech companies provide to us is free, are GDP and productivity effectively capturing the fruits of this wave of innovation? trillion in value in 2015, which is higher than the $800 billion figure referenced earlier.

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Disclosing Covid Cases In Public Is More Effective Than Lockdown

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers highlight that such an approach was possible in large part due to the laws in the country surrounding the public sharing of information on people with infectious diseases, with significant changes introduced after the MERS outbreak in 2015. hit to GDP, with 4,000 more deaths. ”

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New Report Explores The Changing Nature Of R&D

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of GDP on research and development by 2027. The report reveals that much of the global growth in R&D expenditure is being driven by computing, as the share of R&D spending on products fell to 41% by 2015, with a further fall to 37% expected by 2020. The UK government has recently set an ambitious target of spending 2.4%

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Nigeria’s GDP Just Doubled on Paper: What It Means in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, Nigeria ascended to the position of Africa’s largest economy following a recalculation of its GDP by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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Oil’s Fall Is a Challenge for Gulf Economies, but Also an Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% in 2015 and 3.2% of GDP during 2000–2011, the GCC countries are projected to run fiscal deficits of 7.9% of GDP in 2015 and 2016. during 2000–2011, the IMF projects growth rates to slowdown to 3.4%

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