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New strategy for reviving economic growth: sleep less
An intriguing new hypothesis suggests that economic growth has stalled because game-changing innovation is no longer happening. Electricity, the telephone, indoor plumbing etc. were game changing in...
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The world’s largest economy in 2025?
China is all set to become the world’s largest economy, right? Maybe not. An emerging view would have us believe that China may not become the world’s largest economy after all, not in 2025 and not...
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10 most innovative cities in the world
The Innovation Cities program measures the potential of 445 cities around the world as innovation economies. The classification is based on 162 city indicators; apart from giving bragging rights, the...
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China vs. India in manufacturing: more to it than just low cost
The conventional view on China in manufacturing is that low labor cost drive the competitive advantage. The conventional view on India in manufacturing is? Well, there is no conventional narrative, not...
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What will future jobs look like?
Andrew McAfee is principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an economist and studies how technology impacts businesses and the society...
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Dubai real estate is back (and so is tailgating)
A few years back, around the peak of the real estate boom, tailgating also peaked in Dubai. You got into the fast lane on a major road and before you could blink, a big SUV would materialize in the...
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When should you sell real estate?
I could have sold my Dubai apartment at a profit of more than 100%. That was in the heady days of 2007 and 2008. Back then everyone told me, don’t sell, prices will go up another 10, 20, 30 per cent,...
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Expo 2020: unintended consequences
A cousin of mine, who has a contracting business in Bahrain, called me up yesterday and said he was expanding his business to Dubai. Reasons? He thinks a construction frenzy is about to start and...
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