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Global Turning Points
The Challenges for Business and Society in the 21st Century
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Global Turning Points
The Challenges for Business and Society in the 21st Century
About this book
The second edition of this popular book offers an accessible yet sophisticated analysis of the game-changing events and trends that are transforming the world beyond recognition. For the first time in human history, more people live in cities than in the countryside, and greater numbers suffer from obesity than from hunger. During the next few decades, India will become the biggest country in terms of population, China the largest in output, and the United States the richest among the major economies on a per capita income basis. Food and water shortages will likely become humankind's most important challenges. With four new chapters on the rise of the global middle class, the transformative power of technology, institutions and the entrepreneurial spirit, and the trials and tribulations of the financial system, this book provides a thorough introduction to the challenges facing business and society in the twenty-first century.
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Information
1980
Deficit
Europe
Rest
of
the
world
United
States
China
–3
–2
–1
%
of
global
GDP
0
1
2
3
Germany
Japan
Surplus
Europe
Other
Asia
Oil
exporters
1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
Figure
2.3
Global
current
account
imbalances,
1980
–
2019
(%
of
GDP)
Notes:
Figures
after
2013
are
projections.
The
difference
between
the
bars
above
the
zero
line
and
those
below
is
due
to
statistical
discrepancy.
Source:
IMF,
World
Economic
Outlook
.
2000
2005
2010
M&As
FDI
1990
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
1995
Figure
2.4
Global
fl
ows
of
inward
foreign
direct
investment
(FDI)
and
international
mergers
and
acquisitions
(M&As),
1990
–
2013
(billions
of
US
dollars)
Source:
United
Nations
Conference
on
Trade
and
Development.
18
A
global
economy
out
of
balance
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 Welcome to the twenty-first century
- 2 A global economy out of balance
- 3 The rise of the emerging-market multinationals
- 4 The new demography: aging, migration, and obesity
- 5 From dictatorship to democracy and failed states
- 6 A disparate world: inequality and poverty
- 7 The rise of the global middle class and the high-net-worth elite
- 8 The transformative power of technology
- 9 Development, institutions, and entrepreneurship
- 10 The quest for sustainability
- 11 The trials and tribulations of the financial system
- 12 The global powers of the twenty-first century
- 13 Coping with uncertainty and complexity
- References
- Index
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