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MAY 2011
New McKinsey research finds that the Internet now accounts for a significant share of global GDP and plays an increasingly important role in economic growth.
MARCH 2011
Explore the cities and emerging urban clusters that will drive dramatic growth and demographic changes over the next generation.
Over the next 15 years, 400 cities that most executives have never heard of will power global growth. This narrated slideshow explores them.
Look to the Eastern Hemisphere for tomorrow’s top urban players in the global economy.
APRIL 2011
Understanding the region’s myriad fast-growing cities will be crucial for developing effective business strategies.
FEBRUARY 2011
Interest rates are rising in the long term. Businesses will have to adapt, while governments must prevent an era of creeping financial protectionism.
JANUARY 2011
They are on the rise, but that might not be such a bad thing.
A new index shows mixed results in the country’s push for sustainable urban development.
Despite inflation, bankruptcies, and other problems, industrial enterprises should remain highly profitable.
DECEMBER 2010
Surging demand for capital, led by developing economies, could put upward pressure on interest rates and crowd out some investment.
OCTOBER 2010
Regulation and market barriers continue to hold back the continent’s service sectors.
SEPTEMBER 2010
China’s growth depends less on exports than conventional wisdom suggests.
JULY 2010
China and India are both urbanizing rapidly, but China has embraced and shaped the process, while India is still waking up to its urban realities and opportunities.
JUNE 2010
As one of the primary sources of economic growth, US multinational corporations could provide insights into how to sustain the US economy over the long term.
A new report explores the explosive growth of digital information and its potential uses.
Restructuring and less fractious politics could speed the building of a more balanced and open economy.
Private-sector innovation and the spread of best practices can raise growth rates and spur employment.
Results of a survey concluded just before Japan’s natural disaster and the UN sanctions on Libya show that executives’ economic expectations weren’t much dampened by the initial round of political turmoil in the Middle East, although commodity prices and inflation became of greater concern.
MAY 2010
The core drivers of globalization are alive and well, but executives are still grappling with how to seize the opportunities of an interlinked world economy.
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To succeed, African countries must narrow their focus and target high-impact projects.
AUGUST 2010
A panel of regional business leaders discusses its prospects.
Strong prospects await global companies that invest in the continent’s consumer, agricultural, natural-resource, and infrastructure sectors.
The rate of return on foreign investment is higher in Africa than in any other developing region. Global executives and investors must pay heed.
A familiarity with Africa’s demographics, economics, and business climate is essential to considering future trajectories of growth.
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