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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.

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The Economic Costs Of Climate Change

The Horizons Tracker

They used an empirical approach to examine the consequences of rising global temperatures on GDP. “This contrasts with models that calculate metrics like the social cost of carbon, which mostly assume temporary temperature impacts on GDP. . The researchers set out to determine the costs and benefits of climate change policy.

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A Revolution Has Begun in America’s Health Care Coverage

CEO Insider

Americans spend more on medical care as a percentage of GDP than any other nation. For the decade ending in 2020, insurance premiums rose 47 percent and deductibles jumped nearly 69 percent.

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Is An Ethnically Diverse Founding Team Key To Startup Success?

The Horizons Tracker

This represents a growth in global GDP of 6%, which to put that into context is slightly higher than the recent economic forecast from the World Bank of the hit to global GDP from COVID-19. It argued that if the rates of entrepreneurship were equal between men and women that the global economy would grow by $5 trillion.

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Research Highlights The Economic Value Of Immigration

The Horizons Tracker

The data showed that a six-year increase in immigration of around 25% results in an increase in per capita GDP of 0.08% and a 0.41% fall in total government debt by 2032. This continues to grow until 2052, when the increases in GDP per capita reach 0.30% and the fall in government debt reaches 1.34%.

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Why Is Technology Not Producing Productivity Improvements?

The Horizons Tracker

Official data reveals that while GDP grew by around 2.7% After all, in a world in which so much of what the tech companies provide to us is free, are GDP and productivity effectively capturing the fruits of this wave of innovation? Historically this figure has been higher than GDP by around 0.5% generated around $1.4

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Longer And More Complex Supply Chains Benefit Economies

The Horizons Tracker

” Economic advantage. . ” They also believe, however, that as free trade extends around the world, the growth rate of individual nations is likely to converge as they begin to utilize most of the same supply chains as one another.