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...sustain solid growth, the sources of demand need to be rebalanced. The current recovery has been fueled by business investment more than any recovery since the 1950s. But investment cannot grow faster than GDP indefinitely. The second pillar of the recovery has been a rising trade surplus, fueled by strong growth in the U.S. and China and the lowest price-adjusted value of the yen since 1986. That, too, has limits...
...reduce a gap between rich and poor that sees 45% of national income going to 10% of the wealthiest households. His government has delivered programs such as the Zero Hunger initiative, which aims to put food on the poorest familes' tables. Since 2002, Brazil has posted low inflation, rising gdp and a strengthening currency. But in the slums, signs of progress prove as elusive as the rats that dart between the shacks. Wilson, 15, lives in the favela of Heliópolis, where half the 125,000 inhabitants are under 25. The vast majority come from Brazil's hardscrabble northeastern...
...looking for new examples, he started to consider this: What would the U.S. look like if viewed as a company? Analyzing competitive forces has been routine at business schools ever since Harvard's Michael Porter fleshed out his original model in the 1980s. Grove put U.S. GDP at the center of a Porter-like model and concluded that our reliance on foreign oil (a key supplier for economic growth) poses a strategic threat...
...everything short of Armageddon, these nations have little incentive to engage in discussions about the international financial system. But the world needs such dialogue more than ever. There are risks to the global economy posed by mounting trade imbalances, especially the U.S.'s huge trade deficit (around 6% of GDP) and the soaring surpluses in emerging Asia, some European economies, and oil-producing nations. These imbalances cannot be mitigated by the Group of Seven (G-7) industrial countries alone. The fact is, the global economy is very different from what it was 20 years ago, when the G-7 accounted...
...expanding the brands in China, India and Russia, adding secondary lines and product extensions. "All companies we get involved with have attractive growth characteristics," says John Megrue, a co- CEO of Apax Partners, which just bought Tommy Hilfiger. "Well-run consumer companies ought to grow way north of the GDP...