Most nations never reach their potential! This statement applies not only to basket-case nations such as Haiti and Yemen, or even struggling nations such as Myanmar and Laos. We can make the same statement about most industrial nations, including Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece. Do you even think that the United States has reached its true potential with 15 percent [read more]
MegaCities are the Driving Force in Economic Development.In 1973, Richard J. Barnet and Ronald E. Mueller published Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations. The authors criticized the growth and power of Multinational Corporations and their role in the American expansion abroad in empire-building and colonization. They warned that multinational corporations are designed to exploit other nations. They would [read more]
April 5, 2013: New York: I had the pleasure of speaking on the Macro-Economy panel today at the Annual China Business Conference, jointly sponsored by the Columbia Business School and the Greater China Society. The conference is one of the largest on the East Coast and serves to elevate understanding of China’s rapidly growing–and just as rapidly evolving economy. Participants [read more]
“Market Your Way to Growth is written to guide companies on choosing the right growth strategies among the eight major company growth strategies. We do not address the question of how to get a nation’s economy to grow. An excellent new book on that subject is Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for [read more]
President Obama is pushing his infrastructure rebuilding plan. He was in Miami on Friday, March 29 “to promote his plans to rebuild the nations ‘raggedy’ roads, bridges, schools and other infrastructure with a marriage of public and private investment.” This is a tremendous “growth” opportunity for companies, especially construction companies and engineering firms, to propose or bid for government funds [read more]