of GDP – The Growing Market for International Travel for Medical Care – CEOs Want Health-Care Reform (2009) – Can We Expect the Health Care System in the USA to Become Less Damaging to the Economy? Decades ago W. Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. MORE
Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. With the rise of China, India and other Asian countries, what languages do we teach in school? Bengali? Punjabi? Think this is a bit of an issue for our economic and political future? MORE
No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. GDP very purposefully excludes whole swaths of human existence, from domestic work to volunteer activities to cash transactions not recorded by the government. The limitations of GDP have long been recognized. Academics have also joined the post-GDP party. MORE
Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. MORE
As a percentage of GDP, it’s now back to mid-1990s levels: There’s a version of the chart above in the much - discussed paper that MIT economist David Autor presented last week at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting. MORE
After noticing the real GDP per person just dropped to its lowest level in more than 75 years, a major newspaper recently asked a slate of economists, "What's wrong with the economy?" Stock Market What is Chartered Market Technician cultural trends Elliott wave EWI Knowing market analysis markets real GDP Robert PrechterKnowing where you are within a trend helps you see around the next corner. By Elliott Wave International. MORE
Let''s normalize this indicator to GDP and see what we have. Margin debt as a percentage of annual GDP is still 10 times the 1974 level. Margin debt is up 100 times in the last 39 years. MORE
We found the expected pattern here: When income inequality in a country was low, on average an increase in GDP per capita was associated with an increase in life satisfaction. When income inequality was high, an increase in GDP per capita was virtually unrelated to life satisfaction. MORE
Small businesses constitute the majority of our GDP and have historically been the source of most new job creation. An economy that derives 70% of its GDP from consumer spending cannot sustain stable growth when average consumers don't have money to spend. From 2000 – 2009, overall GDP grew by 17.8% Imagine a structurally sound house with a roof (GDP) supported by 4 walls (demand). Economy Recession Small/medium business GDP MORE
In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. Courtesy of Manuel Ferrol. MORE
Bob's blog entries Amazon Elizabeth Stephenson France Telecom’s Orange GDP growth Germany’s T-Systems Kindle OECD countries Peter Bisson Rik Kirkland S. Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Peter Bisson, Elizabeth Stephenson, and S. Patrick Viguerie for The McKinsey Quarterly. MORE
private sector GDP alone ranks them as the equivalent of the world’s fourth largest country. MORE
It was hosted by Bhutan, a small but visionary country which famously uses Gross National Happiness (GNH) instead of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to index its progress. Leadership Managing people Morale Motivation Organizational culture Productivity GDP GNHToday, March 20, 2013, marks the first ever International Day of Happiness. MORE
Booz estimates, for example, that if female employment rates were to match male rates in the United States, overall GDP would rise by 5%. In Japan, such initiatives could increase GDP by 9%. Nearly one billion women are poised to enter the global economy in the coming decade. MORE
In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. MORE
In fact, real GDP per person just dropped to its lowest level in more than 75 years ! Stock Market What is 2008-2009 recession daily newspaper economic data economists free look New York real GDP USLike Vanilla is used to make Chocolate. Despite new all-time highs in the stock market, US economic data is lagging. MORE
findings) that must be mastered the the World Poll Top 25 Nations ranked by GDP What a master plan for economic “war” most consist of what they can do Who “super mentors” are Why behavioral economics is “the new secret weapon MORE
These days, many people agree that, just as the full measure of a man can't be taken by his banker, the full measure of a nation isn't reflected in its GDP. But what should take the place of that alpha metric as a better indicator of economic health? Is there a better way to size up the relative performance of the world's economies, and to judge whether a given one is getting better or worse over time? MORE
We must aspire to a statistically significant increase in charitable giving as a percentage of GDP. Charitable giving has remained stuck at 2% of GDP in the U.S. We need an Apollo-like goal that challenges America to increase charitable giving from 2% of GDP to 3% of GDP within the next ten years – and this, in large part, means allowing charities to make the investments in growth that they need (and not withholding donations because we disagree about what those mean). MORE
Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. MORE
And growth reduces the government’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which facilitates and cheapens future government borrowing. The problem is that population aging is itself a cause for a decline in both GDP and per-capita GDP. The active labor force declines over time, and so does GDP. Accordingly, GDP per capita tends to fall. If the more productive few can produce as much output as the less productive many, GDP will not fall. MORE
private sector GDP alone ranks them as the equivalent of the world’s fourth largest country. ~. MORE
In case you skimmed too fast to get the point, here it is: that favored benchmark of national performance, GDP growth or GDP per capita, is a distortion of reality that guides us to decisions contrary to what people really want. The Legatum people reason that in order for keep the focus on our real priorities, we need to measure the other components of prosperity as carefully as we do GDP, profits, and individual income. MORE
Charitable giving in US has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970. Jeff Henderson was one of my favorite speakers at this year’s Catalyst Conference. His talk was on what non-profits can learn from for profits. One reason I identify with Jeff is because of his background in the business world. Here are a few thoughts Jeff shared: The solutions non profits are trying to provide aren’t keeping up with the problems they are trying to solve. MORE
As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. One of the most strategic challenges remains inexplicably a black hole. It is time to unveil some figures and share thoughts on this hidden treasure: women. MORE
According to World Bank data , merchandise trade grew from 16% of global GDP in 1990 to 26% by 2008. Since then, it has been in steady decline and now stands at a little over 21% of global GDP. Political headwinds have almost nothing to do with the inability of merchandise trade to keep up with growth in world GDP. Trade in services has grown steadily from 4% of world GDP in 1990 to 6.7% of world GDP, global stock of FDI is higher today than it has ever been. MORE
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. Before the announcement, the stock market capitalization to GDP ratio for Nigeria was 33%, compared to 270% for South Africa. MORE
In September, eleven of fifteen European Union members experienced lower goods prices, and the latest quarter-over-quarter Eurozone growth in real GDP is zero. Deflation Rearing its Ugly Head in Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Around the Globe. MORE
“Mid-size and large cities in developing countries generally have a growth rate exceeding that of their host countries,” say the authors, and “top cities have grown faster in GDP than the rate of their country’s GDP growth. MORE
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. They are doing a good job at turning their GDP into social progress; the U.S. MORE
Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% The world is aging, and that matters for growth. MORE
state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. states could add more than 10%, and the nation’s 50 largest cities could add between 6% and 13% of GDP. trillion GDP opportunity would require the creation of 6.4 MORE
Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. of the world''s GDP. Communication Customers Global business GDP MORE
But please allow us to suggest this: Belief that the GDP and other economic measures drive stock market trends is completely and utterly false. Suppose you were to possess perfect knowledge that next quarter's GDP will be the strongest rising quarter for a span of 15 years, guaranteed. MORE
In its GDP release yesterday, the Commerce Dept. Business Impact ALFRED GDP Recession St. This from the The Big Picture Blog! made revisions back t0 2003 that showed the recession to be worse than originally thought. Using ALFRED , the St. MORE
Economy Global business Information & technology GDPSo far, 2011 has been a remarkable year. MORE
Gross domestic product (GDP)—a broad measure of all goods and services produced—grew at a 3.2% Final sales—a measure that gives a feeling for underlying demand in the economy by subtracting the change in business inventories from GDP—notched its biggest increase since 1984, growing 7.1% percentage points to GDP. annual rate in the fourth quarter, the government said Friday. That's up from the 2.6% pace notched the quarter before. MORE
Sovereign debt stands at 133 percent of annual GDP -- among EU member states, only Greece has more. Italy has now suffered through more than two consecutive years of recession. Rome is even €70 billion in debt to companies in Italy. MORE
With an increase in Japan’s female employment rate, the country’s workforce would expand by more than eight million people—and its GDP would grow by as much as 13 percent.* MORE
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age. HBR STAFF. Germany, Switzerland, and Japan are now in negative interest rate territory. So are Denmark and Sweden. And U.S. treasuries have hit all-time lows. MORE
Between 1970 and 2015, the value of exports and imports as a fraction of gross domestic product (GDP) almost tripled from 11 percent to about 30 percent. The past few decades have witnessed a historic integration of the United States into the world economy - even more so than in the first half of the twentieth century. MORE
“You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. He told told CNBC he could do it. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days […]. Bob''s blog entries citizen legislators CNBC Founding Fathers Proposed Congressional Reform Act What Warren Buffett would do to end the deficit in 5 minutes MORE
GDP is masking deeper issues. Economics & Society Video MORE
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In its GDP release yesterday, the Commerce Dept. Business Impact ALFRED GDP Recession St. This from the The Big Picture Blog! made revisions back t0 2003 that showed the recession to be worse than originally thought. Using ALFRED , the St.
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state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. states could add more than 10%, and the nation’s 50 largest cities could add between 6% and 13% of GDP. trillion GDP opportunity would require the creation of 6.4
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age. HBR STAFF. Germany, Switzerland, and Japan are now in negative interest rate territory. So are Denmark and Sweden. And U.S. treasuries have hit all-time lows.
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Booz estimates, for example, that if female employment rates were to match male rates in the United States, overall GDP would rise by 5%. In Japan, such initiatives could increase GDP by 9%. Nearly one billion women are poised to enter the global economy in the coming decade.
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No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. GDP very purposefully excludes whole swaths of human existence, from domestic work to volunteer activities to cash transactions not recorded by the government. The limitations of GDP have long been recognized. Academics have also joined the post-GDP party.
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In fact, real GDP per person just dropped to its lowest level in more than 75 years ! Stock Market What is 2008-2009 recession daily newspaper economic data economists free look New York real GDP USLike Vanilla is used to make Chocolate. Despite new all-time highs in the stock market, US economic data is lagging.
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findings) that must be mastered the the World Poll Top 25 Nations ranked by GDP What a master plan for economic “war” most consist of what they can do Who “super mentors” are Why behavioral economics is “the new secret weapon
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These days, many people agree that, just as the full measure of a man can't be taken by his banker, the full measure of a nation isn't reflected in its GDP. But what should take the place of that alpha metric as a better indicator of economic health? Is there a better way to size up the relative performance of the world's economies, and to judge whether a given one is getting better or worse over time?
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Gross domestic product (GDP)—a broad measure of all goods and services produced—grew at a 3.2% Final sales—a measure that gives a feeling for underlying demand in the economy by subtracting the change in business inventories from GDP—notched its biggest increase since 1984, growing 7.1% percentage points to GDP. annual rate in the fourth quarter, the government said Friday. That's up from the 2.6% pace notched the quarter before.
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“You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election. He told told CNBC he could do it. The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days […]. Bob''s blog entries citizen legislators CNBC Founding Fathers Proposed Congressional Reform Act What Warren Buffett would do to end the deficit in 5 minutes
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GDP is masking deeper issues. Economics & Society Video
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It was hosted by Bhutan, a small but visionary country which famously uses Gross National Happiness (GNH) instead of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to index its progress. Leadership Managing people Morale Motivation Organizational culture Productivity GDP GNHToday, March 20, 2013, marks the first ever International Day of Happiness.
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Back in 2003, Mark Davies carried out an important analysis of gross domestic product (GDP) by language use. of the world''s GDP. Communication Customers Global business GDP
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In September, eleven of fifteen European Union members experienced lower goods prices, and the latest quarter-over-quarter Eurozone growth in real GDP is zero. Deflation Rearing its Ugly Head in Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Around the Globe.
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After noticing the real GDP per person just dropped to its lowest level in more than 75 years, a major newspaper recently asked a slate of economists, "What's wrong with the economy?" Stock Market What is Chartered Market Technician cultural trends Elliott wave EWI Knowing market analysis markets real GDP Robert PrechterKnowing where you are within a trend helps you see around the next corner. By Elliott Wave International.
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private sector GDP alone ranks them as the equivalent of the world’s fourth largest country.
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Small businesses constitute the majority of our GDP and have historically been the source of most new job creation. An economy that derives 70% of its GDP from consumer spending cannot sustain stable growth when average consumers don't have money to spend. From 2000 – 2009, overall GDP grew by 17.8% Imagine a structurally sound house with a roof (GDP) supported by 4 walls (demand). Economy Recession Small/medium business GDP
Coaching Tip
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But please allow us to suggest this: Belief that the GDP and other economic measures drive stock market trends is completely and utterly false. Suppose you were to possess perfect knowledge that next quarter's GDP will be the strongest rising quarter for a span of 15 years, guaranteed.
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With an increase in Japan’s female employment rate, the country’s workforce would expand by more than eight million people—and its GDP would grow by as much as 13 percent.*
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Economy Global business Information & technology GDPSo far, 2011 has been a remarkable year.
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Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. With the rise of China, India and other Asian countries, what languages do we teach in school? Bengali? Punjabi? Think this is a bit of an issue for our economic and political future?
C-Level Strategies
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
“Mid-size and large cities in developing countries generally have a growth rate exceeding that of their host countries,” say the authors, and “top cities have grown faster in GDP than the rate of their country’s GDP growth.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 29, 2013
Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S.
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of GDP – The Growing Market for International Travel for Medical Care – CEOs Want Health-Care Reform (2009) – Can We Expect the Health Care System in the USA to Become Less Damaging to the Economy? Decades ago W. Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management.
Coaching Tip
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Let''s normalize this indicator to GDP and see what we have. Margin debt as a percentage of annual GDP is still 10 times the 1974 level. Margin debt is up 100 times in the last 39 years.
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private sector GDP alone ranks them as the equivalent of the world’s fourth largest country. ~.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 11, 2011
In case you skimmed too fast to get the point, here it is: that favored benchmark of national performance, GDP growth or GDP per capita, is a distortion of reality that guides us to decisions contrary to what people really want. The Legatum people reason that in order for keep the focus on our real priorities, we need to measure the other components of prosperity as carefully as we do GDP, profits, and individual income.
Strategy Driven
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As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. One of the most strategic challenges remains inexplicably a black hole. It is time to unveil some figures and share thoughts on this hidden treasure: women.
Harvard Business Review
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According to World Bank data , merchandise trade grew from 16% of global GDP in 1990 to 26% by 2008. Since then, it has been in steady decline and now stands at a little over 21% of global GDP. Political headwinds have almost nothing to do with the inability of merchandise trade to keep up with growth in world GDP. Trade in services has grown steadily from 4% of world GDP in 1990 to 6.7% of world GDP, global stock of FDI is higher today than it has ever been.
Harvard Business Review
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And growth reduces the government’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which facilitates and cheapens future government borrowing. The problem is that population aging is itself a cause for a decline in both GDP and per-capita GDP. The active labor force declines over time, and so does GDP. Accordingly, GDP per capita tends to fall. If the more productive few can produce as much output as the less productive many, GDP will not fall.
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. They are doing a good job at turning their GDP into social progress; the U.S.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2015
In most countries, both developed and developing, private employment and median family income have stopped growing at the same pace as labor productivity and real GDP per capita—mostly due, they argue, to technological advances. Courtesy of Manuel Ferrol.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2014
As a percentage of GDP, it’s now back to mid-1990s levels: There’s a version of the chart above in the much - discussed paper that MIT economist David Autor presented last week at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 20, 2015
Without an acceleration in productivity growth, the rate of global GDP growth is set to decline by 40% from 3.6% The world is aging, and that matters for growth.
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Sovereign debt stands at 133 percent of annual GDP -- among EU member states, only Greece has more. Italy has now suffered through more than two consecutive years of recession. Rome is even €70 billion in debt to companies in Italy.
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Charitable giving in US has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970. Jeff Henderson was one of my favorite speakers at this year’s Catalyst Conference. His talk was on what non-profits can learn from for profits. One reason I identify with Jeff is because of his background in the business world. Here are a few thoughts Jeff shared: The solutions non profits are trying to provide aren’t keeping up with the problems they are trying to solve.
Harvard Business Review
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We found the expected pattern here: When income inequality in a country was low, on average an increase in GDP per capita was associated with an increase in life satisfaction. When income inequality was high, an increase in GDP per capita was virtually unrelated to life satisfaction.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
We must aspire to a statistically significant increase in charitable giving as a percentage of GDP. Charitable giving has remained stuck at 2% of GDP in the U.S. We need an Apollo-like goal that challenges America to increase charitable giving from 2% of GDP to 3% of GDP within the next ten years – and this, in large part, means allowing charities to make the investments in growth that they need (and not withholding donations because we disagree about what those mean).
Harvard Business Review
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Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment.
Execupundit
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Between 1970 and 2015, the value of exports and imports as a fraction of gross domestic product (GDP) almost tripled from 11 percent to about 30 percent. The past few decades have witnessed a historic integration of the United States into the world economy - even more so than in the first half of the twentieth century.
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