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| How to compete and grow: A sector guide to policy | | March 2010 | | MGI report |
Drawing on industry case studies from around the world, MGI analyzes policies and regulations that have succeeded and those that have failed in fostering economic growth and competitiveness at the sector level. What emerges are some surprising findings that run counter to the way many policy makers are thinking about the task at hand.
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| The Internet of Things | | February 2010 | | McKinsey Quarterly |
More objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate. The resulting new information networks promise to create new business models, improve business processes, and reduce costs and risks.
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| Debt and deleveraging: The global credit bubble and its economic consequences | | January 2010 | | MGI report |
The recent bursting of the great global credit bubble has left a large burden of debt weighing on many households, businesses, and governments, as well as on the broader prospects for economic recovery in countries around the world. Leverage levels are still very high in ten sectors of five major economies. If history is a guide, one would expect many years of debt reduction in these sectors, which would exert a significant drag on GDP growth.
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| An exorbitant privilege? Implications of reserve currencies for competitiveness | | December 2009 | | MGI perspective |
Observers assume that the United States enjoys an "exorbitant privilege" because the dollar is the global reserve currency. But MGI finds that in 2007/8, the United States gained a net benefit of just $40 billion to $70 billion—0.3 to 0.5 percent of US GDP. In the "crisis year" to June 2009, the benefit fell to between -$5 billion and $25 billion. Given this, could the United States prioritize domestic growth and jobs over its global responsibilities, sparking greater currency volatility that threatens competitiveness?
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| The new financial power brokers: Crisis update | | September 2009 | | The McKinsey Quarterly |
Although their paths are diverging, all will remain powerful forces in the global economy.
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| Global capital markets: Entering a new era | | September 2009 | | MGI report |
World financial assets fell by $16 trillion to $178 trillion in 2008, marking the largest setback on record and a break in the three-decade-long expansion of global capital markets. Looking ahead, mature financial markets may be headed for slower growth, while emerging markets will likely account for an increasing share of global asset growth.
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| How Russia could be more productive | | September 2009 | | The McKinsey Quarterly |
Russia's way out of the economic slowdown is the more effective use of the country's resources-not just more resources.
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| If you've got it, spend it: Unleashing the Chinese consumer | | August 2009 | | MGI report |
By pursuing a more aggressive program of comprehensive reform, China's leaders could raise private consumption above 50 percent of GDP by 2025, bringing the consumption rate in line with other Asian countries and vaulting China's economy into a new phase. A more consumer-centric economy would generate more jobs, allocate capital and resources more efficiently, spread the benefits of growth more equitably, and also enrich the global economy with $1.9 trillion a year in net new consumption.
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| The new power brokers: How oil, Asia, hedge funds, and private equity are faring in the financial crisis | | July 2009 | | MGI report |
The power brokers collective performance in the financial crisis, though better than the sharp declines in wealth of most institutional investors, masks an important shift: Asian sovereign and petrodollar investors emerged as more influential than ever, while hedge funds and private equity saw their previously rapid growth interrupted.
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| Changing the fortunes of America's workforce: A human capital challenge | | June 2009 | | MGI report |
Global economic integration and technological advances have combined to produce permanent changes in the skill levels required to flourish in the U.S. labor market. Seventy-one percent of U.S. workers are in jobs for which there has been a decrease in demand from employers, an increase in supply of eligible workers, or both, resulting in less-than-average income growth.
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