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Despite Our Incredibly Tough Times, Our World’s Still Getting Better and Better

The Practical Leader

Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know goes well beyond their top ten, with a total of 78 trends showing humanity’s huge improvements. Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know is a pleasure: gorgeous, self-contained vignettes on human progress, which you can sample at your leisure or devour in a sitting.”

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Lone rangers and sole-source providers simply cannot succeed in competitive environments and global economies. Those who don't help to develop the business on the front end are just vendors and subcontractors. International trade development, including research, marketing, relocation, negotiations and lobbying. About the Author.

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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. However, remaining U.S.

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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. The key to such a change is developing an innovation-oriented industrial structure and a well-functioning innovation system. In that regard, Greece finds itself at a crossroads. to 3% of their GDP.

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Economic Growth Isn’t Over, but It Doesn’t Create Jobs Like It Used To

Harvard Business Review

Gordon’s main point is that we no longer have the kind of robust, broad-based innovation that powered economic growth and rising living standards between, roughly, 1870 and 1970. The Global Digital Economy. But what about the impact on global employment? Perhaps in tourism? Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

Six years ago, David and Donna Allman approached Opportunity with an idea that fell outside our traditional microfinance model: to build a Community Economic Development (CED) program in Nicaragua. The Allmans' passion was palpable, and the funding model they suggested was different from our norm but completely viable.

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

For a country that isn’t export-oriented, and whose major industry, tourism, relies on stability, having its own currency is not much of a solution to economic woes. This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. It was sovereign debt that was off kilter.