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Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades
By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details
Nomura, Koji, and Tomomichi Amano. "Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades." Discussion Paper, Keio Economic Observatory, 2012.
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Renovating Democratic Capitalism
This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details
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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer. The prosperity that began on the coast spread inland in the first decade of the new century. Q: What were the first red flags that indicated to you that China’s economy... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
case capturing some of the dilemmas faced by African economies. South Africa is the largest economy in Africa by quite a distance, and is an illustration of the macro determinates of foreign direct investment, he said. Werker, whose... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
become more and more of a relevant problem over the past eight years or so.” US politics are heating up ahead of the November presidential election as voters evaluate candidates Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump. With the View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
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Press / Media
By: Debora L. Spar
I'll have a girl, please
American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006
DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Post-Soviet Purpose
of Slavic Studies. The book describes how national identities influence the world economy and explains patterns of economic disintegration and reintegration among Russia and the other fourteen states that composed the Soviet Union View Details
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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from years of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
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Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
several of the key issues that were discussed over the next two days. Sachs stressed that "Africa's development challenge is the world's greatest economic challenge." After touching on some of the region's persistent problems - AIDS and malaria, intense poverty, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
senior fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry; and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has written and lectured on Japan’s Asia policy and Asian economic integration. Her 2006 book, Transforming East Asia, analyzes the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
export-driven economy to one centered around knowledge industries and services and a growing consumer class. “It took a week or so to recover afterward, but I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way,” HBS associate professor Suraj... View Details
- Book Review
Review of How Open is the U.S. Economy? edited by R.W. Hafer. Lexington Books, 1986
By: K. A. Froot
Keywords: Economy
Froot, K. A. "Review of How Open is the U.S. Economy? edited by R.W. Hafer. Lexington Books, 1986." Journal of International Economics 23, nos. 3-4 (November 1987): 389–391.
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
markets, credit, and other vital links necessary to sustain their enterprises. "There are large numbers of very poor people who depend on the informal economy for their survival," says Lu. "Enterprises provide a working solution for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
From his vantage point, Sicupira confirms that even in Brazil, the world's ninth largest economy and the powerhouse of Latin America with its 170 million people, capital is not easy to find. "In Brazil," he states, "there is a shortage of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
loves. The Disruptors' Feast: How to Avoid Being Devoured in Today's Rapidly Changing Global Economy by Frits van Paasschen (MBA 1988) (The Disruptors' Feast) Virtually everything about the way people live and do business is changing... View Details