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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

The Horizons Tracker

The results show that the total emissions from emerging markets were much greater than would be required to limit warming to 2°C or even 1.5°C. of national GDP. of national GDP. The costs involved in this effort are also significant, and amount to up to 4.1% “Global carbon space for limiting 1.5°C

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Markets: Understand the Present to Forecast the Future (Part 2)

Coaching Tip

Alexandra Lienhard : So, as editor of the Financial Forecast and the Short-Term Update , what's the goal with the services you provide? He wanted to step back a bit from the day-to-day market commentary and incorporate the views of socionomics into what he was writing about. EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm.

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How to Win with AI and Automation

HR Digest

Spending on worker transition has also continued to shrink as a percentage of GDP. IMPROVING WORK MARKET DYNAMISM. Today’s digital platforms can help match people with new jobs and reestablish vitality to the labor market. Retraining workers across all generations for the coming difficulties will be a goal.

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The Real Reason the German Labor Market Is Booming

Harvard Business Review

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. That’s roughly, and remarkably, half of Germany’s GDP, amounting to about 9% of world exports that year. .” The number of unemployed has been halved over the past decade. With just 2.6

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To Size Up Your Market in India, Look Twice

Harvard Business Review

Our goal was to rejuvenate a dying 40-year-old brand so it would appeal to a new generation of Indian children, many being raised on a diet of American cartoon shows and films. One of the trickiest challenges in India is to get the size of the market right. At first sight, the market will always look attractive.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

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. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.