Coaching Tip

JANUARY 29, 2011

Gross domestic product (GDP)—a broad measure of all goods and services produced—grew at a 3.2% Final sales—a measure that gives a feeling for underlying demand in the economy by subtracting the change in business inventories from GDP—notched its biggest increase since 1984, growing 7.1% percentage points to GDP.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It was well documented during the Covid crisis that low-skilled workers were the most affected by the financial challenges introduced by the lockdown measures. The author reminds us that in the past 11 recessions, while GDP fell by around 2% and unemployment rose by the same figure, this doesn’t tell the whole picture.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 5, 2020

As governments have attempted to limit the spread of the virus by locking down vast chunks of the economy, global stock markets have plunged downwards, with single day slumps matching that of the entire financial crisis of 2008. New research from Columbia Business School explores the role the media has played in this downward spiral.

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

A downturn in the American economy will hurt the US stock markets, but a sell-off on Wall Street won’t necessarily damage the American GDP growth quite as much– it’s another sign of changing macroeconomic dynamics. It is well-known that since the global financial crisis, the American GDP growth has been doing fairly well.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 22, 2020

The researchers say that the aviation sector is crucial to the economy, and contributes approximately 3% of overall GDP in both the US and UK. It’s a real-time dataset the researchers are confident can provide a valuable insight into the contribution the aviation sector makes to GDP. Flight data. ” . ” .”

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 18, 2021

The link appears to be far stronger in terms of economic growth, with the research finding that 90% of the growth in GDP could be attributed to higher energy usage. That’s in terms of GDP at least, as when economic prosperity was measured using purchasing power parity, this appeared to provide a much closer link.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The researchers openly pondered whether the stagnation and low productivity levels seen since the financial crisis are likely to endure or whether technologies like AI and cloud will eventually drive society forwards again. Official data reveals that while GDP grew by around 2.7% Except this transformation isn’t showing up in the data.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2021

“For instance, British beer company, Brewdog, responded with agility and creativity throughout the crisis —shifting to produce hand sanitizer, creating virtual bars, setting up the Brewdog Drive-Thru, and repurposing physical locations to create co-working space with Desk Dog.”. This resulted in a boost to GDP of around 0.4%.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

For instance, pre-Covid, Tokyo alone was estimated to have a GDP of around $1.6 trillion in GDP alone by 2035. “The stakeholders promoting smart-city development will benefit from the crisis and use their experience from the temporary shutdown to accelerate digital transformation in their cities,” he writes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2024

Despite a roaring economy, India is in the middle of an employment crisis: In a country with the world’s largest and youngest workforce, there are very few good jobs to be had.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In fact, productivity growth in the years since the 2008 financial crisis has been weaker than at any time since the dawn of the industrial revolution. The hard facts are as follows: The UK’s GDP increased on average by 2.7% per annum between 1949–2007. Between 2008–2021 it increased by 0.9%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2011

How big would America's "debt crisis" be if we looked not merely at ( largely artificial ) financial costs, but at real economic — social, human, natural, personal, emotional, and more — costs? To begin with, America's gross public debt as a percentage of its GDP is around 98ish (aka, its debt/GDP ratio).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Greece is unquestionably in a catastrophic spiraling economic, social and political crisis. GDP shrunk this year by 5.5% GDP shrunk this year by 5.5% Our horrendous public debt is compounding and the public debt to GDP ratio will soon hit almost 200%, a level that can force our country to default on a most of what it owes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Of the 17 members of the euro zone, just three (Germany, France and Italy) make up more than three-quarters of the area's aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) of about €12 trillion. Its 20% rise in the past 18 months has cut Swiss GDP growth rates and provided a competitive advantage to companies in the euro zone.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Here's what orthodox economics would have predicted for a country without banks: A collapse in the money supply, a credit crunch, a trade implosion, mass unemployment, an atomized GDP, and the gears of industry and commerce grinding to a crashing halt. And perhaps failing to recognize that is what's really at the root of this great crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

As a percentage of GDP, it’s now back to mid-1990s levels: There’s a version of the chart above in the much - discussed paper that MIT economist David Autor presented last week at the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting. After the dot-com bubble, investment in software and information processing equipment in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

In yet another effort to solve the euro crisis, France and Germany last week agreed on a stability pact that essentially offers increased bailout funds in return for even stronger fiscal austerity on the part of the major debtor countries of Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

During the financial crisis, the world came to the apparently shocking realization that debt financing entails risks. trillion, roughly 10% of gross domestic product (GDP). Gross public debt is $14 trillion, or over 95% of GDP. Financial institutions, households, and governments all suffered because they had too much leverage.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Analysts have already reduced forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% With government deficits equaling 10% of GDP, and national debt at 200% of GDP, funding the recovery plan with still more government debt would be imprudent. This crisis will be no different as far as its response to humanitarian needs is concerned.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

That Greece with a population of a mere 11 million and a GDP of $300 billion (only 2% of the Eurozone economies) can create systemic risk for the world speaks volumes about the downside of global interdependence. Leaders worry about Spain, Portugal, and other debtors following Greece into a broader crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

And at that time, the United States had a public debt/GDP ratio of around 65% — a number that has since passed 100%. According to The Economist , the world's governments currently hold debts of approximately $45 trillion (relative to a world GDP of $65 trillion ). Nearly every major democracy is now struggling with public debt.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. From an economic perspective, its goal is much the same as India's updated GDP 2.0: But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

of world GDP for the stalled Doha round of trade negotiations and roughly 0.5% One such tool alone, trade facilitation, could grow global GDP by 1%. diversifying its risks and helping it recover from the crisis. The service sector is roughly two-thirds of world GDP but only one-fifth of international trade.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We recently released the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 , which tracks the depth and breadth of trade, capital, information, and people flows across 140 countries that account for 99% of the world's GDP and 95% of its population. The United States, for example, has a serious problem with its trade deficit which needs to be solved.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, the prelude to the worst global financial crisis since 1929. Back in January 2009 European officials assumed that the crisis was purely a U.S. Yet the place where the crisis had originated, the U.S., How could a crisis that started in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

debt was 98% of GDP, its deficit 10% of GDP; Spanish debt was 69% of GDP, its deficit 8.5% Each ended in crisis. To cover this deficit, Mexico had to borrow 7% of GDP a year. The resulting crisis echoes those in Chile, Mexico, and Argentina. Why can the U.S. The difference isn't their debt and deficits.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The world's two most significant economies will both benefit from a swift and sensible resolution of the current federal budget crisis in Washington. They know how to contemplate 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year programs and achieve year-on-year GDP growth that averages no less than 8 percent. The Chinese want stability in America.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Some even argued that they'd caused the financial crisis. current account deficit, which measures the gap between what the country takes in from export income, investment income, and cash transfers and what it pays out, peaked at nearly 6% of GDP in 2006 and was down to 3.1% of GDP in 2011. Still, 3.1%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Over recent years, governments too have increasingly begun to realize that focusing on GDP growth alone does not necessarily lead to improvements in living standards of their citizens. Put simply, what’s good for increasing GDP may not be good for the long-term betterment of society.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Before the crisis, many authors advanced frameworks in which international capital imbalances were supposed to be a "win-win" phenomenon. For capital flows, the historical data suggest that policymakers should start paying attention when the absolute values of capital accounts add up to 3% of GDP and start getting worried when they exceed 4%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2010

However, because of weak export demand and the financial crisis in the US, Colombia could grow only by 2.6% While countries like China and South Korea spend more than 2% of GDP, Colombia's S&T expenditure fell from 0.46% of GDP in 2005 to 0.39% in 2009. People haven't noticed, but the Colombian economy expanded by 5.5%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

I couldn''t help but think back to that as controversy erupted this week over Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff''s oft-cited three-year-old finding that economic growth plummets when a country''s debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 90%. growth in countries with debt/GDP of more than 90%, they came up with 2.2%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

After all, real GDP growth in China continues to hit rates near 10% year after year — and decade after decade! But as the rates of GDP growth continue to stagnate in both Europe and the U.S. You might think such a weak stock market is inconsistent with China's strong rate of economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

GDP growth in emerging markets is slowing. While the US economy clearly went through a 'soft patch' in April and May, and consumer sentiment has been hit by worries over the euro area crisis, key sectors — including housing and construction — continue to show incremental improvement. "The euro’s future is in limbo.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

This isn't just a spending problem; the tax cuts of the early 2000s also brought revenue down (as a percentage of GDP) to what appears to be an unsustainably low level. Without some major course corrections, the country is eventually headed for a real — not politically induced — debt crisis. In the last decade, the U.S.

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