HR Digest

JULY 5, 2021

Spending on worker transition has also continued to shrink as a percentage of GDP. INVESTING IN HUMAN RESOURCES. Across the OECD, spending on worker training and development has been declining over the last twenty years. Most studies suggest that the scale of these issues is likely to amplify in the coming many years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2023

trillion in lost productivity, equal to 11% of global GDP. Research shows a causal link between happy workers and a 13% increase in productivity. On the flipside, unhappiness at work costs the world $7.8 But too many of us are disconnected, disengaged, and bored at work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Foreign aid, which can account for to up to 97 percent of a nation's GDP, is neither a long-term nor a sustainable solution to help the citizens of these fragile countries. They advise entrepreneurs on areas including finance, marketing, customer service, and human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Today growth in global trade has flattened, and it looks unlikely to regain its previous peak relative to world GDP anytime soon. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 The same is true for cross-border financial flows.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

It lumps fundraising in with finance, human resources, leadership training, technology, and other administrative functions. at 2% of GDP ever since we have been measuring it, and has not budged. The founding donor can create a great model, but who's going to expand it and whence will those funds come? How could it?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Unfortunately, this virtuous cycle appears to be broken. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. And wages are stagnant.

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