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US stock market is no threat to consumption

CEO Insider

A downturn in the American economy will hurt the US stock markets, but a sell-off on Wall Street won’t necessarily damage the American GDP growth quite as much– it’s another sign of changing macroeconomic dynamics. It is well-known that since the global financial crisis, the American GDP growth has been doing fairly well.

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How Innovative Projects Get Funded

The Horizons Tracker

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 Link Between Unemployment Benefits And Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

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?

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How covid has impacted business in the Philippines

Strategy Driven

The latter saw a sequence of currency devaluations and after the Thai government reversed the decisions to peg the local currency to the USD, which also triggered stock market declines and reduced import revenues. This also sent real GDP growth tumbling to a little over 1% (1.3%)overall, during the second quarter of 2020.

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Gender Pay Gap Narrows Down Women to Men Wage Ratio in 2022

HR Digest

In 1963, full-time working women earned 59 cents for every dollar earned by men in the labor market. This was a tremendous disparity, and it was for this reason that the labor market was regarded as a place of inequity for women who worked full-time. How do women contribute to the labor market? .

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Research Highlights The Economic Value Of Immigration

The Horizons Tracker

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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The Long-Term Boost Provided By Ukrainian Refugees

The Horizons Tracker

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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