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How HR can stand firm in a 2025 recession

HR Digest

The US economic outlook looks murky as well, with GDP growth limping towards 2%, and the inflation stubbornly at 3%, and consumer confidence witnessing a 10% drop in February. The threat of a recession in 2025, or worse, a white-collar recession is slicing through tech, finance, and professional services already.

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How Innovative Projects Get Funded

The Horizons Tracker

Other obstacles include bank lending rules, the trustworthiness of a firm’s management, and biases against certain industries or company types. Firms with low net worth are more likely to be affected by financial frictions, as they need to borrow more to finance their investments than firms with higher net worth,” the researchers say.

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How Ready Are Companies For The Post-Pandemic World?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. There was then a gap to access to finance and a non-supportive policy environment. of respondents citing survival as a key challenge.

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Are the government falling into the short-termist trap?

Chartered Management Institute

I'm sure many of you will have read the news that the Olympics this summer have caused the UK economy to grow by 1% in the third quarter of the year, thus ending three quarters of declining GDP and, officially at least, taking us out of recession. The parallels with the finance industry are stark.

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Complimentary Resource – Economist: Smart SMBs Fine-Tuning the Engines of Growth

Strategy Driven

In the latest forecasts from The Economist Intelligence Unit, global GDP growth for 2013 has been revised down to 3.1% – only slightly up on GDP growth for 2012 (2.9%). Complimentary Resource – Going Green With Content Management.

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Is GDP the Right Measure of Wealth and Well-Being?

Harvard Business Review

In case you skimmed too fast to get the point, here it is: that favored benchmark of national performance, GDP growth or GDP per capita, is a distortion of reality that guides us to decisions contrary to what people really want. What is seldom mentioned is that our economic statistics contain plenty of subjectivity.

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Nigeria’s GDP Just Doubled on Paper: What It Means in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, Nigeria ascended to the position of Africa’s largest economy following a recalculation of its GDP by the country’s National Bureau of Statistics. The long overdue exercise (the last one was in 1990) nearly doubled the country’s economy pushing GDP up to $510bn from $270bn.

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