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Gear Up for the Future: Outlining the AI Impact on Employment

HR Digest

There are a lot of benefits from the integration of AI technology, a possible 7 percent boost to global GDP according to the report, but when paired with apprehensions about unemployment, it results in an equal amount of worry for the future. As AI becomes more accessible, it also becomes more easy to adopt.

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Technology Is Changing Transportation, and Cities Should Adapt

Harvard Business Review

And as innovation brings self-driving cars, electric vehicles, in-vehicle data connectivity, mechanisms for sharing rides and vehicles, and other technologies to more people, getting around cities will become easier, faster, and safer. million deaths in 2015 ), and air pollution (health problems like respiratory ailments).

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services.

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China’s Growth: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Some find evidence of a clear improvement of total factor productivity since market-oriented reforms began in 1979, estimating that the increase in TFP contributed about 40% to GDP growth, roughly the same as that contributed by fixed asset investment. Factor accumulation (capital and labour) thus accounts for about 60 to 70% of GDP growth.

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Toward Africa 2.0

Harvard Business Review

It will link members of the African diaspora to opportunities in their native continent and position them to contribute to economic progress in the U.S. Corruption continues to undermine the efficiency of international-assisted projects in Africa, especially when they are executed by governments. AIDA is coming at the right time.

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The Danger of Turning Cynical About Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

GDP, according to Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner , venture-backed companies made up more than 11% of public firms as of 2011, with a total market value of $25.9 Though economic growth remains a highly uncertain area of study, virtually all economists agree that technological innovation plays a central role.

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Research: The Rise of Superstar Firms Has Been Better for Investors than for Employees

Harvard Business Review

” Rapid technological advance in computers and automation has led to a huge fall in the quality-adjusted price of capital equipment. Superstar companies make lots of profit per employee, so as they become a bigger and bigger part of the economy, the overall share of GDP going to labor goes down.

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