Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2013

You can read more here about the impact of not changing our education and economic systems. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. Education and literacy? As she starts her senior year at Brown , her sense of urgency is increasing.as

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 30, 2020

This would allow them to explore how balance in the workplace contributes towards GDP. Nonetheless, barriers to employment clearly still exist, ranging from blatant discrimination to a lack of educational opportunities for certain sections of society. “Over the last 50 years, more than a quarter of all growth in the U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Ignoring the need While politicians increasingly like to adopt a hard line against immigration, the reality is that most developed countries are in dire need of it. Indeed, while Dr. Ugur Sahin was lauded as an immigrant who helped to develop the Covid vaccine, as a car factory worker, his father would have received far fewer laurels.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers. Make sure your leaders have high-quality development plans.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. The limitations of GDP have long been recognized. Academics have also joined the post-GDP party. This past Friday, the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. But let’s go further on education. Gender inequality is a reality.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

While its benchmarks for national gender gaps on economic, political, educational, and health-based criteria are extremely valuable, it is essentially a compilation of the barriers to women's advancement. Women are the primary caregivers for children, the elderly, and the sick, and this burden hampers their economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. The Legatum people reason that in order for keep the focus on our real priorities, we need to measure the other components of prosperity as carefully as we do GDP, profits, and individual income.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Without the ability to create knowledge through quality education, the sustainability of Africa’s new-found optimism remains questionable. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

What’s more, the proportion of entrepreneurs with high levels of education has also been declining, with data showing a fall from 12.2% For instance, the ratio of patents to GDP has been in decline in the United States for years, while the cost for each patent is on the rise. in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

leads the world in health expenditures as a percentage of GDP at 16.5%. And the majority of the opinions are "left" or "right" New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was on Oprah last week discussing education reform. It’s common to hear someone say about the U.S., “We We have the best health care system in the world.”

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are other factors to consider when it comes to working mothers as well, such as nativity and education. The Hamilton Project reported that foreign-born working mothers with some form of college education were now participating more in the workspace, likely due to changes in the work authorization rules in the country.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

The economy is growing steadily, the unemployment rate is below 5%, and on GDP per capita America still is one of the richest countries in the world. Using 53 different indicators, including nutrition, safety, education, human rights, tolerance, higher education, and others, it paints a vivid picture of American failure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

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. Scarcer jobs and diminishing wages can only lead to greater inequality and global instability.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

We all know that education is an investment — but it’s not solely a personal one. The prosperity of nations and the health of economies is linked to the educational attainment levels and size of a skilled workforce. This was a major theme at the Global Education & Skills Forum last week in Dubai.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Now think about how companies approach their community development and CSR programs. In some parts of the world government mismanagement of community development (deliberate or otherwise) has led to civil strife, sometimes resulting in armed conflict, creating a security scenario where business simply cannot continue to operate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

The context for technological development was very different a century ago. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. history have tended to be highly educated, in contrast to the common portrait of the uneducated amateur. was so innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The jobs gained will require higher educational attainment and more advanced levels of communication and cognitive ability, as work requiring rote skills such as data processing or collection increasingly are taken over by machines. Broadly distributing income gains will then translate productivity growth into GDP growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Our empirical findings suggest that cultural heterogeneity, measured by either fractionalization or polarization, has a discernible positive impact on the growth rate of GDP over long time periods. But we suspected that diversity might play a different role at different stages of development. percentage points in developing countries.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

But some forecasts focus too much on macro data, like GDP, urbanization, and population growth. Middle data is closer to actual consumers than far-flung data like GDP, but it elevates the frame of reference, as most companies mistakenly believe consumers spend more time thinking about their categories and brands than they really do.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Yet the determinants of its successful development are far from established or well understood. Estimates show that around 8% of China’s GDP growth is driven by the shift of resources from the public sector to the private. My own research with John Van Reenen has shown that GDP growth would be lower by between 0.43

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. It also summarizes patterns of connectedness at the regional level. Why does all of this matter?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Partly in consequence, women get less education: 50% drop out after primary school because they are called back home to look after their parents' burgeoning families. While Director of the Computer Center at the University of Zambia he developed the country's first ISP, which was then spun off as a campus company. Consider the payoff.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Of course economic success is important –- most obviously in providing citizens with the things that make life better (healthcare, education, etc.) -– but only up to a point. Put simply, what’s good for increasing GDP may not be good for the long-term betterment of society. Wealth alone does not make for a happy and successful society.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

The price of this fast-track, oil-fueled development has been the region’s high dependence on oil export revenues (and in the case of Qatar, also of liquified natural gas, of which it is currently the largest producer in the world). After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% of GDP in 2015 and 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

The books have developed something of a cult following among econowonks across the political spectrum. Lindert found essentially no correlation between levels of social spending (expressed as a percentage of GDP) and economic growth in wealthy nations in the post-World War II era. in 2010, government spending's share of GDP in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

There's a growing middle class, expanded GDP, and general optimism in the region. The educational institutions remain underfunded, so it's difficult to to create knowledge and diversify the economies beyond minerals. Strikes in universities are common and quality remains very low, especially in technical education. If the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Indicators like gross national income (GNI) and GDP go up. We also found a correlation between English proficiency and the Human Development Index, a measure of education, life expectancy, literacy, and standards of living. Low and very low proficiency countries display variable levels of development.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The plan is expected to outline policies intended to ensure that China continues to see average annual GDP growth of 7% through this decade, the growth rate required to meet Premier Li Keqiang’s stated goal of doubling GDP by 2020. What Needs to Change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2011

The bill hopes "to advance the mutual interests of the United States and Africa with respect to the promotion of trade and investment and the advancement of socioeconomic development and opportunity." does better for Africa when it supports talented Africans and offers scholarships to educate them in its elite universities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We interviewed these 411 leaders, as well as those who work for them, analyzed their education, background, and experience and recorded their actions and impact using 64 investment variables and 24 performance measures over seven years. Academies have devolved decision-making powers enabling them to bypass local government.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

It's because Chinese parents invest heavily in their children's education, generally for an only child whose earning power will determine the parents' and grandparents' comfort in old age. Chinese policymakers know that for 50 years the United States has invested around 3% of GDP in R&D.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? The research found that each extra year of secondary education increases a woman's potential earnings by 25% on average. Lack of childcare? Minimal professional training? Insufficient infrastructure?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In Brazil, rapid growth in the working-age population and rising labor-force participation have been boosting GDP for years, but have now pretty much run their course. as befits an already very developed, very rich economy. based companies at the forefront of most interesting digital developments. births per woman in 1980 to 1.8

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Throughout the world, countries at all levels of economic development and with all types of political systems have embarked in a creative search for the elusive goal of universal coverage. These resources can now be used to meet other basic needs, such as nutrition and education. Health systems are at a crossroads.

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