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A Plan to Revitalize Greece

Harvard Business Review

It can improve its competitiveness by reducing costs in its traditional sectors, such as tourism, agriculture, and trade. Currently, the annual expenditures for research and development (R&D) amount to 0.67% of Greece’s GDP. to 3% of their GDP. In that regard, Greece finds itself at a crossroads.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

Compared to most oil-rich countries in the Middle East, Iran has a diversified economy, its tourism sector is on the verge of a major windfall, and threats to its political stability are in decline. Some powerful Iranian institutions are highly suspicious of Western influence. sanctions and a fragile economy.

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Tackling Big Global Challenges with Low-Cost Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Digital platforms like Uber and Airbnb harness the power of the internet to offer a frictionless marketplace that powerfully matches supply and demand so as to make whole new sets of assets available to customers. GDP by 2020. dave wheeler FOR HBR. This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation.

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Why Is Ukraine’s Economy Such a Mess?

Harvard Business Review

Ukraine has 45 million inhabitants, is the second-largest European country by land area (after the European parts of Russia and not counting the Asian parts of Turkey) and by all rights ought to be one of the continent’s major economic powers. And then finally, in some parts of Ukraine, tourism has been becoming more important.

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Why President Kagame Runs Rwanda Like a Business

Harvard Business Review

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. So far, Rwanda''s three big clusters are coffee, tea, and tourism, but Porter is convinced there are more to come. In the initial three areas of coffee, tea, and tourism, that effort has advanced quite far now.

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