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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

of GDP (PDF) is necessary to raise infrastructure in the region to the standard of developed East Asian countries. Just to keep pace with anticipated global GDP growth, the world needs to spend $57 trillion , or on average $3.2 The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates that investment equivalent to 7.9%

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

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. In the long term the goal must be broader: to create an economy built around innovation, one that embraces uncertainty.

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The 4 Types of Cities and How to Prepare Them for the Future

Harvard Business Review

Implications for city leaders: Leaders should loosen restrictions so that private finance can invest in improvements to physical infrastructure, to better use what already exists. Global urban innovators will do well to consider the different situations and approaches across the four segments and to match goals and financing appropriately.

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Why Labor Protests in France Won’t Stop Macron’s Reforms

Harvard Business Review

The movement’s organizers claim a convergence des luttes (convergence of goals) among those who oppose the reform to open up the railway sector to competition, or the one to allow public universities to screen applicants more tightly, and those who want a wage increase or oppose the labor and tax reforms by Macron. GDP grew by 1.9%

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Why CEOs Should Watch the Royal Wedding

Harvard Business Review

GDP or around $50 billion. Real monarchs, in the Western world and increasingly elsewhere, must align their goals with those of the public, get the approval of elected governments, and exhibit the common touch. Those are actions that princes of finance should leave to the real princes. Not exactly.

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

In the fast growth markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America, national governments are responding to a more empowered citizenship, and looking for corporate partners to achieve their development goals. Companies that fill that need effectively are doing more than reacting to development. They are playing development to win. It’s neither.

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American Companies Should Stop Being Helicopter Parents

Harvard Business Review

The genius in Singapore’s health-care system is that each individual’s stake in health-care financing is clearly visible. Today Singapore spends only 4% of GDP on health care, versus 18% in the U.S., The former CEO of a major hospital group told me, “People think twice or three times about using services.”