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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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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

This study sharply contrasts with many of the existing indices that measure women's potential, which tend to paint a gloomy picture of victimhood, especially in emerging markets. Yet both our work and the Booz study find that the two basic issues that hold educated women back from achieving their full potential are the same: The care economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Our education and professional training systems have failed to keep pace. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age.

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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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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 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. In emerging markets, labor’s share of GDP is declining in 42 out of 59 countries, including China, Mexico and India. So what are we to do?

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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

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

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

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

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

AUGUST 26, 2016

But some forecasts focus too much on macro data, like GDP, urbanization, and population growth. Measuring Marketing Insights. toys) and education (books) spending per capita on babies and toddlers. With the growth of big data, it is tempting to hope that forecasting will get better. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

However, I fear that Mexico continuing its existing trade-based economic strategy will not necessarily produce different results in the long term — as it wouldn’t for any other developing country. For instance, breeding programs have developed cows to produce milk that is low in fat and high in omega-3 oils. When the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP. That would, in effect, boost GDP per worker from $120,000 to $141,000. GDP could grow by $3 trillion — and the actual figure would likely be higher. GDP could grow by $3 trillion — and the actual figure would likely be higher.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

multinationals, it now invests far more heavily in the growth markets of the BRICS. 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. Coca-Cola still invests in the United States but, like most U.S.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

A few years ago, many staple Western goods were hard to come by in some markets. Despite some markets slowing because of the commodity price downturn (for example, Nigeria), we nevertheless forecast total annual consumer spending in the region to reach US$ 2.5 Steven Moore for HBR. trillion by 2025.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. This finding was consistent and robust across industries, headquarters locations, international expansion markets, and company size.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2015

That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion. Technology-enabled services are the backbone of this industry, and the fastest growing sectors have demand for high-end skills, such as mobile app development and data analytics, as well as middle-level skills, such as video production, copywriting, and financial analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. Of late, it is China, not Silicon Valley, taking the lead in developing mobile technologies. The Digital Economy as a Leverage Point for Public Education.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. And wages are stagnant.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

But Thatcher was also saying that a specific set of financial-market-friendly, ownership-oriented, low-tax policies was the only path to economic success. The newly globalized economy, policed by what Thomas Friedman dubbed the "Electronic Herd" of financial markets, just wouldn''t allow for much freedom of choice in economic policymaking.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. 4% of US GDP). I was at my local gym outside of Boston early one morning and ran into a friend I hadn't seen in several months.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. But the growth — while rapid — has not been broad-based.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Promoting innovation is also one of the eight key reform priorities in the “383” plan being circulated by the State Council’s Development Research Center. of GDP in 2012 from 1.1% China’s educational system emphasizes rote learning rather than creative problem solving. in 2002, and should touch 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all, yet in emerging markets, it's often assumed that microfinance — the use of small loans to foster self-reliant small businesses in a community setting — is the only path for women seeking economic opportunity. Microfinance was one issue that we considered.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Total investment in R&D (as a proportion of GDP) grew from 0.9% Our analysis suggests that, so far, the results have been mixed. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

Even social business will not address those issues for which markets cannot be developed. Philanthropy is the market for love. This nonprofit rulebook discriminates against charities in at least five different areas: compensation, marketing, risk taking, time horizons, and capital itself. How do you monetize that?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. trillion in output annually, adding up to 17% of GDP. Equally important are bold reforms in workforce education and training systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

An effective starting point is to break cities into four segments across two distinctions: legacy vs. new cities, and developed vs. emerging economies. Segment 1: Developed Economy, Legacy City. Implications for entrepreneurs: Denizens of developed legacy cities have discretionary income. Segment 4: Developed Economy, New City.

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