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Low-Skilled Immigration Is Needed To Overcome The Western Worker Crunch

The Horizons Tracker

As with a second Japanese study , when sentiment was more positive towards immigrants, it was generally towards highly skilled ones, who are deemed as filling gaps in domestic supply. Research from Sweden’s Linnaeus University helps to explain this, as it highlights a growing negative sentiment towards immigration.

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Is Entrepreneurship As Popular As We Think?

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There is also evidence to suggest that the entrepreneurs that are in operation are less creative and innovative than their forebears. For instance, the ratio of patents to GDP has been in decline in the United States for years, while the cost for each patent is on the rise. in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption. Hype run wild.

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Nigeria’s GDP Just Doubled on Paper: What It Means in Practice

Harvard Business Review

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. Post announcement, the ratio is 18%.

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As Emerging Markets Slow, Firms Search for “New” BRICs

Harvard Business Review

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business Review

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors. The modeling and simulation relies on two important features.

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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most and Least Resilient Economies

Harvard Business Review

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

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When America Was Most Innovative, and Why

Harvard Business Review

For instance, in 1880 most inventive activity was the result of inventors operating outside the boundaries of firms. The chart below illustrates a strong relationship between patenting activity and GDP per capita at the state level. Fathers’ incomes were positively correlated with the probability of becoming an inventor.