Harvard Business Review
MAY 18, 2017
Agriculture accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s GDP and employs more than 60% of its working population. As they see that developing mobile apps alone cannot feed Africa, many will turn to farming as a business. For decades, African governments have used many policy instruments to improve farm productivity.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2015
They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. And that means being in as much of the developing world as possible.”
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 7, 2014
It’s true of GDP. I was sitting there 18-and-a-half years, getting an extraordinary amount of advice from everybody under the sun. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. That is true of the unemployment rate. It’s true of all commodity markets.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2013
He has presided over an economic and social rebirth, with Rwanda making dramatic gains in health and development indicators ( watching its recent progress on Gapminder is a remarkable sight). Was that advice from people like Professor Porter? Or are you going to wait and see how it develops? Government can''t do it.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2018
If the movie had been set in another age, the advice to young Braddock would have been different. Today digital technology is all the rage because after decades of development it has become incredibly useful. Even now, information technologies make up only about 6% of GDP in advanced economies.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2013
the UK, Hong Kong, and Japan — all capitalist countries, sure, but with dramatically different forms of capitalism and roles for government (government spending is well more than 50% of GDP in Finland and less than 20% in Hong Kong ). The top 10 nations are, starting at No. Then there''s the simpler method of just counting per capita.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2016
At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. Many banks heeded the advice, pulling funding from coal. states , have “decoupled” GDP growth from GHGs. All of this will affect companies of all stripes.
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