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Will The Remote Work Boom See A Rise In Digital Nomadism?

The Horizons Tracker

The village contains a co-work center, communal garden, sports center, workshop, an alternative school, and a spiritual kitchen, with ready views of both the ocean and mountains to residents. “In Despite the metropolitan nature of the city, tourism accounts for 15% of GDP and 9% of employment, so the bind is all too evident.

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China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Harvard Business Review

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.

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Before Your Next African Investment

Harvard Business Review

While attending a UN-sponsored workshop last month in Freetown, Sierra Leone, I noticed an amazing transformation in that country, fuelled primarily by the Chinese. There's a growing middle class, expanded GDP, and general optimism in the region. In my hotel, the TV remote controller was marked in Chinese. If the U.S.