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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

“This new wave of technological change will have a formidable impact on the global economy. ” New markets According to UNCTAD, the green technology sector has the potential to create a market worth over $9.5 trillion by 2030, which is roughly three times the current size of the Indian economy. .”

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The Slow Progress Being Made With AI In The UK

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, just 10% of British firms are masters in AI, compared to 17% globally. Globally we’re seeing IT decision-makers turn to these technologies to improve efficiency and customer satisfaction. The report suggests that this slow progress is primarily due to a lack of internal resources. Faltering progress.

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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To Innovate, Think Like a 19th-Century Barn Raiser

Harvard Business Review

Ask people who have participated in the platform, and they will tell you that the community they built in the process of Kickstarting turned out to be more valuable than the financing they received. The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) is another group pursuing a modern-day form of barn-raising.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business Review

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Both then and in 1686, when Lloyd’s was born in a London coffee house, the global insurance industry was a business of utmost good faith , as it remains today. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. Digital players wield outsize market power. Digital markets are uneven.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

After all, since the 1990s, the sustainability sector has grown rapidly, though at around $1 billion in annual revenues globally it is no giant. Still, market research suggests that future markets for its products and services could be huge — with the U.N. But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool.

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