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India’s Booming Start-up Economy
The rapid growth of startups throughout India should not come as a surprise for analysts and business leaders. For nearly two decades, foreign companies have utilized India's workforce to outsource everything from SEO writing to customer service handling. When the...
Germany’s Innovative Economy
Innovation is more than a buzzword. It is a process that leads to new technologies and ways of doing business. Innovative companies can find ways to do business more efficiently or develop new products to get an edge over the competition. That makes it one of the...
2019’s Most Competitive World Economies
With the end of the year drawing near, economists have had a chance to evaluate and report on the most competitive economies in the world. The World Economic Forum has been reporting on the global competitiveness of 141 economies that comprise 99% of the world’s gross...
Countries Helping to Create a Green Economy
There are very few topics that dominate today’s front-page headlines as much as our planet’s climate situation and global warming, which are two different topics, unbeknownst to some people. They are both important and worth focusing on before it’s too late, but climate changes refer to long-term gradual changes in various conditions that occur over time in a specific region. Global warming, on the other hand, specifically references any increases in Earth’s annual average air temperature near the surface of the planet. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also known as NOAA, there is a very real need for citizens of the planet to address all of the changes that are happening before our eyes. The good news is that it’s not too late to do something about it.
Artificial Intelligence and the Economy
Many people perceive the development of artificial intelligent positively for the overall economy, in relatively any industry. For businesses, these AI technologies involve reducing long-term production costs with more reliable systems. AI structures in business only...
The Difference Between Economic and Financial Investments
Businesses engage in several different kinds of investments, those of which include economic investments and financial investments. The two kinds of investments share similar characteristics and are often mistaken for those new to business investing. Understanding the...
What is Blockchain Economics?
Blockchain is, in the most simple terms, a fully automated way to store and share information across a large network of computers. Originally designed to be used with cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, it is a digital ledger of transactions that stores valuable information...
Why (and How) to Study Economics
Aside from the mandatory introductory courses that some universities require students to take, enrolling in advanced economic classes has its benefits. Even if you do not intend to pursue a degree in economics, there are advantages to studying how societies and...
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