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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GDP Globalization Politics Benchmarking 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

After many years of spectacular economic growth and of what seemed — on the surface at least — like remarkable cohesion within China’s political elite, the past two years have involved what to many analysts has been an astonishing amount of turmoil at the highest levels of the Chinese political establishment.

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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. The United States is one of the richest countries in the sample, ranking 5th out of 133 on GDP per capita, and yet is 19th in the world on social progress. So what’s the problem?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Given the increase in migration and subsequent increase in cultural diversity, it’s not surprising that the economic consequences of both have become an active area of debate in political circles. But we suspected that diversity might play a different role at different stages of development. percentage points.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The traditional economic models developed for assessing trade agreements provide estimates of how much global output would expand if tariffs and some kinds of non-tariff barriers to trade are reduced or removed. of world GDP for the stalled Doha round of trade negotiations and roughly 0.5% Next, consider services trade.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When we reach its second and subsequent chapters, political uncertainty is likely to return and affect the financial, institutional, and real economies. election outcome, Brexit teaches us that little is certain in politics right now. The impact may not be dramatic or visible, but it’s real. Brexit is a process, not an event.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Other markets ranking at the bottom do so mostly because of political volatility, poor governance, and overreliance on commodity exports.

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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

JUNE 9, 2014

The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system. Currently, the annual expenditures for research and development (R&D) amount to 0.67% of Greece’s GDP. to 3% of their GDP. to 3% of their GDP.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

After all, real GDP growth in China continues to hit rates near 10% year after year — and decade after decade! But China's biggest underlying problem is a structural one: It has a very under-developed consumer sector and is overly dependent on export-led growth at a time when its two major customers, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Muhtar Kent's remarks were prompted by the complexities of America's tax code, its bureaucratic red tape, and its polarized political process. There is too much wishful thinking in America that China will stumble, politically if not economically. And the Chinese understand that idle political scapegoating of China in a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

They gathered 30 years of data on levels of household, corporate, and government debt for the world's major developed economies, and they subjected the data to regression analyses against economic growth. public debt already amounts to 97% of GDP, corporate debt 76%, and household debt 95%, so it's on two of the thresholds already.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

Forecasting, as analytically challenging as it is, is a lot like politics, in that there are multiple agendas. But some forecasts focus too much on macro data, like GDP, urbanization, and population growth. And again, this is publicly available data that is also slow and steady in development, making it great for forecasting.

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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. Standing in opposition are the politically powerful local governments, which have plenty to lose.

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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

MAY 28, 2015

Since 2000, for example, Rwanda has racked up average annual GDP growth in excess of 8%—exceeding 12% during some quarters of the Great Recession. Liberia is also a standout—averaging over 8% GDP growth in the past five years, and over 10% in the past year in spite of the crippling influence of Ebola in the region.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

And political and economic characteristics such as globalization or economic freedom were all superior to country of origin for predicting similarity in work-related values. After all, some country borders were arbitrarily drawn based on political considerations and other historical events.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

However, the more specific the information, the less likely it is that data will exist, especially in less developed markets. Remember: Don’t expect your approach to developed-market data to be applicable in emerging markets. Furthermore, many organizations have stakeholder-driven agendas that occasionally add political bias.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

How can leaders develop a specific view of the industry- and firm-level implications? Political process. Here, too, the directional impact has been analyzed credibly, with estimates ranging from 3%–9% of GDP loss. ” From the map, combine various values to develop multiple scenarios. and in other countries.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

to 8% GDP growth rate already is a significant slowdown from the nearly 10% annual pace at which China''s economy had been growing until last year. China, with a per capita GDP of $7,827 in 2011 (in 2005 dollars, according to the latest edition of the Penn World Tables ), is getting close to that first landmark. to 8% growth rate.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The decline of manufacturing has dominated the political narrative in the United States, but there are dual plotlines within this well-known story. Past work by McKinsey found that inefficiencies in manufacturer-supplier interactions add up to roughly 5% of development, tooling, and product costs in the auto industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

That Greece with a population of a mere 11 million and a GDP of $300 billion (only 2% of the Eurozone economies) can create systemic risk for the world speaks volumes about the downside of global interdependence. It faced a 21% prime rate on its floating debt, falling oil prices, and recession in the developed countries.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5 Health systems in developing countries range from providing basic care to everyone to almost nothing to anyone, other than what they can buy out-of-pocket in the least efficient way. In developing countries, the challenges are greater and the manpower more limited to meet them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% Thriving in business markets will require them to offer products and develop sales forces able to target Africa’s relatively fragmented private sector. from 2000 to 2010.

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Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

For the first time in three decades, the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) has won so many seats (282 out of 543) in India’s recently-concluded general elections that it can hope to be in office for the next five years without the support of another political party. Still, India has a chance to return to the path of rapid economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

This helps to explain why Greece has one of the lowest license and patent revenues from abroad as a percentage of its GDP, as well as one of the lowest contributions from high-tech product exports to its trade balance. Of course, in the near term, political stability and sound economic policies are necessary to avert crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands.

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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. So take a look at the social policies recently developed in Mexico. Health systems are at a crossroads.

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Health Care Insurance GDP System 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In this spirit let me introduce you to just such a report: Networks for Prosperity: Achieving Development Goals through Knowledge Sharing ( here is a pdf ), just published by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Leuvan Centre for Global Governance Studies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

The financial industry accounts for about 8% of GDP, but about 32% of corporate profits. But "revolution" — in the sense of a shift of power and influence away from those who currently hold it — could come at a much grander scale, through the loss of faith in global market capitalism within the developing world.

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How To GDP Finance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

And yet in the run up to the collapse in 2007, the combined asset footprint of the three main Irish banks was around 400 percent of GDP. percent over the ten years of the construction bubble, while loans to developers constituted nearly 50 percent of national output by 2007. percent to 102.9 percent in the first quarter of 2009 alone.

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Real Estate Banking Construction Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets. Focusing on data such as population growth, inflation, and GDP growth is a way to anticipate market developments.

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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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Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

US business already are spending heavily on research and development – data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) even shows an uptick in US business investment in R&D. In fact, private capital investment, an even larger ticket item than R&D, has also been increasing and is at historically high levels of GDP.

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Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

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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