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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

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However, developing countries may not be able to take advantage of these opportunities unless their national governments and the international community take decisive action. Developing countries must capture more of the value being created in this technological revolution to grow their economies.”

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“Interpersonal Connectedness” One Factor in Metric to Replace GDP

Michael Lee Stallard

In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. Gertner writes about the U.S. why is everyone smiling?

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Longer And More Complex Supply Chains Benefit Economies

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The authors argue that economies will usually achieve greater economic growth, especially during its manufacturing stage, before relaxing to a slower growth period as it becomes a more developed economy. ” Economic advantage.

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Political Ties Can Distort Industrial Support

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Countries around the world have developed various science and industrial parks to try and aid economic development. Nowhere has this been more so than in China, where over 1,400 such parks have been developed in recent decades. “We call it the price of the friendship,” the researchers explain. of its land.

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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

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A common sticking point in progressing climate negotiations is getting developed and developing nations to work together. of national GDP. C is exhausting while we need to give sufficient consideration of global equality of socioeconomic developments,” they explain. “Global carbon space for limiting 1.5°C

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The Global Nature Of Corporate Venturing

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Corporate venturing has taken off in large part due to its ability to provide firms with a window into the new and disruptive without them having to develop it in-house. The researchers developed a detailed dataset of Chinese corporate venturing activity in the latter part of the 2010s to try and uncover any cross-industry patterns.

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Is Business Travel Key To Economic Growth?

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“We’ve been puzzled by the fact that business travel has been growing faster than world GDP, despite the widespread adoption of alternatives like Skype, FaceTime, email, etc.,” A permanent shutdown of this channel would probably imply a double-digit loss in global GDP,” the researchers explain.

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