“Interpersonal Connectedness” One Factor in Metric to Replace GDP
Michael Lee Stallard
MAY 19, 2010
In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. why is everyone smiling?
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Michael Lee Stallard
MAY 19, 2010
In “ The Rise and Fall of GDP ,&# that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Jon Gertner describes this effort. why is everyone smiling?
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“The more steps in the process, the more opportunity there is for innovation,” the researchers explain. Research from the University of Oxford suggests the opposite is actually the case, and that longer supply chains and deeper networks are actually what makes economies prosperous. ” Economic advantage. .
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The wholesale transition to remote working has by and large been successful, with research suggesting that productivity has largely been strong during the pandemic, even if there have been possible consequences for collaboration and innovation. To a large extent, tools such as Zoom allowed knowledge workers to carry on much as before.
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This has profound implications for our innovation and economic success and national security. Consequently, we aren’t being prepared for engagement in a country with a $2,100 per capita GDP. Angela Maiers Brown University Culture Economic Development Education Innovation Language Leadership Learning' should ours!
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Those parks tend to produce around 5% less GDP per capita than their counterparts in cities where such political connections don’t exist and decisions are made on economic grounds. “That price is about 5 percent less GDP per capita than if you made the decision based on economic fundamentals.” of its land.
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
This represents a growth in global GDP of 6%, which to put that into context is slightly higher than the recent economic forecast from the World Bank of the hit to global GDP from COVID-19. It argued that if the rates of entrepreneurship were equal between men and women that the global economy would grow by $5 trillion.
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The data showed that a six-year increase in immigration of around 25% results in an increase in per capita GDP of 0.08% and a 0.41% fall in total government debt by 2032. This continues to grow until 2052, when the increases in GDP per capita reach 0.30% and the fall in government debt reaches 1.34%.
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hit to GDP, with 4,000 more deaths. The authors provide a direct comparison with China, who introduced a full lockdown, and saw a near 10% fall in GDP in the first quarter of 2020. They believe that the current strategy will result in approximately 925,000 cases of the next two years, with 17,000 deaths, and a loss of 1.2% ”
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They used an empirical approach to examine the consequences of rising global temperatures on GDP. “This contrasts with models that calculate metrics like the social cost of carbon, which mostly assume temporary temperature impacts on GDP. . The researchers set out to determine the costs and benefits of climate change policy.
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public firms contribute to employment, GDP, R&D, and patents. The adjusted number, which accounts for firms acquired by public companies, erases much of the decline in U.S. The third graph shows how much the remaining U.S. Most people who havent looked into mergers blame the drop in U.S.
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“To understand how cities can be simultaneously fast and slow, rich and poor, innovative and unstable, requires reframing our fundamental understanding of what cities are and how they work,” they explain. This results in the impact of innovation being barely noticeable across cities, with timescales often measured in decades.
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NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Analyzing over 500 European regions from 2008 to 2019, the study found that increased national spending on unemployment benefits was associated with decreased rates of business creation, even when accounting for GDP fluctuations, population changes, business closures, foreign investment, and taxation. Why might this be the case?
The Horizons Tracker
JUNE 29, 2020
Each year INSEAD produce a global innovation index, which chronicles the abilities of various countries around the world to support the creation of innovation. It looks at everything from the legal infrastructure, the ease of creating a business, the quality of academia and availability of finance.
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. “The findings mirror the features of the Chinese setting, where entrepreneurs profit from the dramatic expansion in economic activity and serve as a vehicle to leverage the global innovation frontier,” the researchers explain. Standing on shoulders. “Our study illustrates that point using China as a setting.
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The recent Global Innovation Index raised concerns that we’re leaving through a Solow redux, with considerable investments in technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship failing to deliver the kind of productivity improvements that improve the lot of people across society. “The
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FEBRUARY 23, 2021
We’ve been puzzled by the fact that business travel has been growing faster than world GDP, despite the widespread adoption of alternatives like Skype, FaceTime, email, etc.,” the researchers say. “We We posited that maybe there is a difference between moving information and moving brains.
The Horizons Tracker
JUNE 26, 2024
It’s long been an accusation of the digital economy that it hasn’t tended to translate into the kind of productivity improvements that feed their way into GDP growth. GDP has long been criticized as being a blunt measure of economic value, with a huge array of things excluded from the measure.
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
While there have been undoubted ebbs and flows, the last century has seen growth in GDP like never before. Among the key factors in this slowdown is the aging of populations across the developed world, but the authors also cite factors such as the transition towards service-based economies and a slowdown in the rate of innovation.
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NOVEMBER 24, 2022
These are likely to drive unsustainable growth in healthcare spending that is predicted to grow faster than GDP in most OECD countries. The authors also highlight a range of health-related trends, including rising rates of chronic illness, aging populations, and the growing challenge posed by mental health issues. Digital economy.
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MARCH 15, 2022
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. The success of the VCUK consortium reflects how innovation can be accelerated through multiple non-traditional strategies,” the researchers explain. “The
The Horizons Tracker
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A recent study , from NC State, suggests that European countries that allocate resources towards infrastructure and other capital enhancements are poised to witness long-term improvements in their gross domestic product (GDP) as a result of the influx of Ukrainian refugees across the continent. If you own the capital, you benefit from this.
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Spending on worker transition has also continued to shrink as a percentage of GDP. These innovations will make the financial benefits that will help societies manage workforce transitions. Across the OECD, spending on worker training and development has been declining over the last twenty years.
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MAY 31, 2022
If pupils in the UK could increase their learning of Arabic by about 10%, this would correspond to GDP growth of up to £12.6 The research reveals that the benefit-to-cost ratio of languages, such as Mandarin, French, and Arabic is about 2:1, thus providing a return of £2 for each £1 spent. billion over 30 years.
The Horizons Tracker
AUGUST 13, 2020
“We’ve been puzzled by the fact that business travel has been growing faster than world GDP, despite the widespread adoption of alternatives like Skype, FaceTime, email, etc.,” A permanent shutdown of this channel would probably imply a double-digit loss in global GDP,” the researchers explain.
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AUGUST 16, 2023
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Research from Accenture suggests that these difficulties could wipe €920 billion from GDP across the Eurozone alone during 2023, which equates to just under 8%. The invasion of Ukraine coupled with renewed Covid lockdowns in China sent supply chains reeling, inflation soaring, and pronounced fears of global food shortages.
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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 report highlights how should this trend continue, it could raise British GDP by £4.1 The data highlights the rapid adoption of various digital technologies by small and medium-sized businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. billion per year. Crucial for a successful recovery.
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FEBRUARY 19, 2023
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. The paper highlights how recessions seldom affect workers, or indeed companies, equally.
The Horizons Tracker
MARCH 13, 2023
of national GDP. This would therefore require non-emitting energy deployment from most sectors within these economies and a much faster and deeper reduction in emissions from other countries in order for climate goals to be met. The costs involved in this effort are also significant, and amount to up to 4.1%
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FEBRUARY 13, 2024
It’s extremely costly in terms of GDP as well as human lives, and the current approaches to homelessness reduction are not working. What’s surprising to me was how large this bias was,” the authors conclude. “Homelessness is such a big problem in North America right now. ”
The Horizons Tracker
OCTOBER 12, 2020
New research from MIT sets out to understand precisely why the labor share of GDP has fallen from 67% in 1980 to just 59% today. The discontent from economists has mainly arisen due to the remarkable stability of labor’s share of GDP throughout the 20th century. “That’s our key point.” ” Superstar firms.
The Horizons Tracker
JUNE 30, 2022
This obviously represents an enormous windfall to countries in the North, with the paper suggesting this is equivalent to around a quarter of GDP in the region, but the true gains are extremely difficult to calculate. What does appear clear is that such appropriation underpins capital accumulation itself.
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