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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

The production of goods and services with smaller carbon footprints, also known as green technologies, is on the rise and presents numerous economic opportunities. However, developing countries may not be able to take advantage of these opportunities unless their national governments and the international community take decisive action.

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Business Model Innovation Will Be Key To Emerge From Covid Well

The Horizons Tracker

The authors argue that when combined with the adoption of new digital technologies, economies can achieve productivity growth of around 3.5%, versus the 1% that is predicted currently. “We posit that rapid productivity growth offers the only viable option and that it can reduce the debt to GDP ratio to pre-pandemic.

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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. of respondents citing survival as a key challenge.

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Technology Is Changing Transportation, and Cities Should Adapt

Harvard Business Review

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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When America Was Most Innovative, and Why

Harvard Business Review

economy depends on technological progress, but recent data suggests that innovation is getting harder and the pace of growth is slowing down. The context for technological development was very different a century ago. The competitiveness of the U.S. One way to do that is to look to history. was so innovative. Inventors in U.S.

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

Most big corporations follow global development trends. That is the reactive approach to economic development. CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. They are playing development to win. That is playing development to win.

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Fixing the Euro Zone and Reducing Inequality, Without Fleecing the Rich

Harvard Business Review

Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country. A payment of cash to Eurozone households of 3-5% of GDP would probably suffice to generate a recovery.

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