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Societies Where Women Are Empowered Have Larger Entrepreneur Funding Gaps

The Horizons Tracker

trillion financing gap worldwide for small- and medium-sized enterprises owned by women. Surprisingly, new research from the University of Notre Dame suggests that gender discrimination in startup financing is exacerbated in societies with greater women’s empowerment. There’s a staggering $1.7

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Great CEOs lead by example…they set the tone for others in the organization by demonstrating proactive, rational, logical and balanced thinking as opposed reactionary emotional thinking.

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The Wasting of Your Life

Chris Brady

" and to push for political actions that would seek to "redistribute" it "more fairly." Many people will resist the idea that they even have blessings at all, instead focusing upon their problems. Some hear the word and immediately consider it to be something possessed by someone more fortunate.

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History Rhymes in the Greek Debt Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Ironically, Brazil was already attempting to retrench and adjust, but bank retrenchment and "redlining"—treating the whole region as being the same—resulted in over 25 countries falling into arrears by 1983. On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. Signs of a new U.S.

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

This has certainly been the picture painted by Syriza, the left-wing political party of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and by many friends of Greece and progressive economists. contraction today, there was no one in the finance ministry actually making policy. The reality, though, is more complicated. growth in late 2014 to a 2.5%

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Will Greece Survive the Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

Greece is unquestionably in a catastrophic spiraling economic, social and political crisis. Most people rightly blame the highly polarized and corrupt culture of our politics for the mess. Unemployment has reached an historical record of 18.4%, 30% of whom are below 30 and continues to rise. Consumption continues to drop.

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China's Impending Slowdown Just Means It's Joining the Big Leagues

Harvard Business Review

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. China Economy Finance' to 8% growth rate.". When that happens, growth tends to slow.

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