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What British, European, and American Policymakers Need to Do Now

Harvard Business Review

In the leadup to the vote, George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, had talked about how his response to the vote would be tax increases and spending cuts in order to maintain a balanced budget. But it’s likely to be a quarter percent of GDP or less over the next six to 12 months. There will be some drag on the U.S.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

Collectively, the D5 nations serve two important purposes for our project: They give us a way to construct a global benchmark that can be used to assess D5 nations and other countries, and they each offer a case study and model for what smart can look like. The Government 3.0