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How Developing Countries Can Benefit From Green Technologies

The Horizons Tracker

However, developing countries may not be able to take advantage of these opportunities unless their national governments and the international community take decisive action. Developing countries must capture more of the value being created in this technological revolution to grow their economies.”

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How Innovative Projects Get Funded

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Financial markets tend to fund the implementation of existing ideas or investment-intensive projects but often fail to adequately fund the discovery of new ideas,” the researchers explain. So, if the GDP usually grows by 2% each year, without these obstacles, it could grow by around 2.4%. faster each year.

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The Global Nature Of Corporate Venturing

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Corporate venturing has taken off in large part due to its ability to provide firms with a window into the new and disruptive without them having to develop it in-house. The researchers developed a detailed dataset of Chinese corporate venturing activity in the latter part of the 2010s to try and uncover any cross-industry patterns.

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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

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A common sticking point in progressing climate negotiations is getting developed and developing nations to work together. The results show that the total emissions from emerging markets were much greater than would be required to limit warming to 2°C or even 1.5°C. of national GDP.

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Markets: Understand the Present to Forecast the Future (Part 2)

Coaching Tip

Back in the 1990s, his interest started broadening and he started developing this field called socionomics. He wanted to step back a bit from the day-to-day market commentary and incorporate the views of socionomics into what he was writing about. EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Steve : Thank you. .

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How Skills Will Be Crucial As We Adapt To The Post-Covid World

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Last year online learning platform Coursera released their first Global Skills Index to try and understand the changing nature of skills development around the world. This surge not only reflects the ongoing interest in digital skills development, but also some of the softer skills that I’ve identified as key in past articles.

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Working Mothers Are Important Contributors to the U.S. Labor Force

HR Digest

Working Mothers’ Challenges Are Labor Market Concerns While many see it as better to exclude the working women labor force rather than make changes to the system to accommodate them, it is imperative to take the challenges of working mothers seriously.

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