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Disclosing Covid Cases In Public Is More Effective Than Lockdown

The Horizons Tracker

The paper highlights how Seoul, with its 10 million or so inhabitants, managed to have less than a thousand confirmed cases and just three deaths, despite being one of the most densely populated cities in the world. hit to GDP, with 4,000 more deaths. ” Containing the spread. ”

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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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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

But the real tragedy happened later: a timid recovery during 2010-11 was followed by a second recession starting in the third quarter of 2011, from which Europe did not start recovering until 2015. But GDP fell so much that the actual effect was to push up the ratio of debt to GDP. What went wrong? I am afraid the answer is no.

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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business Review

That’s roughly, and remarkably, half of Germany’s GDP, amounting to about 9% of world exports that year. The economy is doing well despite Germany’s accommodation of more than 1 million refugees since 2015. New management approaches and measures added more efficiency and a results orientation. trillion in 2016.

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Leading Job Growth in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age. So what are we to do?

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most and Least Resilient Economies

Harvard Business Review

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher. Smaller, less-attractive markets should be consolidated into clusters to cut costs and resources.

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