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Comment on: Topic 'What is VC (Value Chain)'
 process  are  fragmented  across  countries. CEPR has established the Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, with the goal of stimulating research on the important and timely questions raised be the emergence of global value chains. This research network, led by Paola Conconi (ULB and CEPR) will gather together economists working on international production from theoretical, empirical and policy angles.  CEPR is collaborating closely on this initiative with the World Bank, which has also identified as a key priority to help developing countries to connect to, and develop through global value chains. CEPR and the World Bank have join forces to foster debate and collaborations in this area among researchers in both academic and policy institutions. The World Bank's GVC page can be found here. Europe is an optimal ground for this network, given that many scholars working in this area are based in Europe and that some of the most important datasets on GVCs are developed and maintained here. The core supporters of the network are the World Bank, CEPR, the Graduate Institute’s Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) and other government agencies. The network meets twice a year for research and policy outreach seminars and liaises with the Trade Policy Research Network when suitable. Conferences and Workshops First Conference on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, Washington, 30-31 March 2016. The event was held at the World Bank Headquarters and broadcast globally online. The Q&A with Paola Conconi and Daria Taglioni can be found here. All further conference materials can be found here. Second Conference on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, Geneva, 22-23 September 2016. The event was held at the Graduate Institute's Centre for Trade and Economc Integration (CTEI). The programme can be found here. Third Conference on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, Singapore, 19-20 May 2017. The programme can be found here. Fourth Conference on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, Santiago de Chile, 12-13 January 2018. …
Added by chris macrae at 8:21am on April 1, 2018
Comment on: Topic 'The Economist revolution 40 year curriculum by pictures'
oduction by Yu Ping, Vice Chair and Sherpa of B20 China 300 business representatives of the G20 countries met last 17 April at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC. This meeting, coinciding with the annual Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, was the first B20 China Joint Taskforce Meeting. ChinaEU is honored to be a member of B20, which stands for the business representation in the G20 meeting preparatory process. The B20 group discusses policy recommendations for the world economic governance that will be submitted to the heads of state of the G20 countries when they meet in in Hangzhou, China, on 4–5 September 2016. Several strategic recommendations are being considered, among which stands the proposal of setting up an Electronic World Trade Platform (e-WTP). The most notable recommendation discussed in the SME Development Taskforce is the proposal to set up an eWTP. Jack Ma at Boao Forum in March 2016 (Source: XinHua News Agency) The idea of an eWTP (Electronic World Trade Platform) was originally launched by Jack Ma, Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group and also Chair of the SME Development Taskforce, at Boao Forum (to read Ma Yun’s full speech in Chinese, please click here) in March this year. The platform will facilitate SMEs’ development and integrate public-private dialogue on e-commerce trading modes. The key goal of eWTP is to promote ‘inclusive’ trade. Inclusive trade refers to reducing the threshold effect, faced by SMEs to participate in cross-border e-trade. The WTP will provide SMEs a transparent and open platform to sell their goods and services globally. Keynote speech by Zhu Min, Deputy Director of IMF The Washington B20 session opened with a positive note from the IMF, who showed strong confidence in China’s economic growth. Deputy Managing Director Zhu Min admitted that the world economy is facing downgrade with a growth rate at 3.2%, a decrease of two percentage points compared to the IMF’s previous forecast. Government debt has especially become a serious issue, increasing by 42% in two years to reach 106%. Despite the global economic challenges, China’s growth rate was instead upgraded from 6.3% to 6.5%, showing signs of stabilization and recovery, according to both Zhu and Ma Jun, Chief Economist of People’s Bank of China. Keynote speech by Ma Jun, Chief Economist of the People’s Bank of China Business leaders and economists commented on the role of B20 and G20 in restructuring the global economy. A few words were spent also on the leadership of China, which this September will chair the G20 meeting in Hangzhou, headquarters of e-commerce giant Alibaba. Frank Ning, Chair of Trade & Investment Taskforce and Chairman of Sinochem, proposed that G20 can play a bigger role in rebalancing world economy by bringing more real exchange of goods, accelerating technology and innovation, as well as giving more value to manufacturers, instead of focusing too much on finance. Dimitris Tsitsigaros, Vice President of IFC, Global Client Services believed that G20 should also play a role in promoting regional integration, reducing protectionism, improving access to global value chain and upgrading the global financial infrastructure. As Ren Hongbin, Chair of Infrastructure Taskforce and Chairman of China National Machinery Industry Corporation, pointed out that, to mitigate current economic challenges, reform in infrastructure is key, which is also one of the few areas identified by IMF reports as having potential to deliver strong productive gains across all kinds of countries. Green investment and financial inclusion involving private sector players were among the hottest issues discussed. China is believed to make a successful leader of B20 as well as G20 to deliver favorable results in addressing global challenges, given its infrastructure-oriented One Belt One Road Initiative and the profound structural reform undergoing in the country. The B20 has set up five taskforces, namely Financing Growth, Trade & Investment, Infrastructure, SME Development and Employment, to brainstorm on the most appropriate policy recommendations to make to the G20 government leaders. The taskforces met close-door to agree on the scope and drafting of these key business recommendations. The most notable recommendation discussed in the SME Development Taskforce is the proposal to set up an eWTP. Jack Ma at Boao Forum in March 2016 (Source: XinHua News Agency) The idea of an eWTP (Electronic World Trade Platform) was originally launched by Jack Ma, Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group and also Chair of the SME Development Taskforce, at Boao Forum (to read Ma Yun’s full speech in Chinese, please click here) in March this year. The platform will facilitate SMEs’ development and integrate public-private dialogue on e-commerce trading modes. The key goal of eWTP is to promote ‘inclusive’ trade. Inclusive trade refers to reducing the threshold effect, faced by SMEs to participate in cross-border e-trade. The WTP will provide SMEs a transparent and open platform to sell their goods and services globally. ChinaDaily 6 September Columnist Peter Furman writes: AliBaba shows how tech can boost inclusivity. Its been 740 years since Hangzhou reigned as the world’s most important city.   Hangzhou was then the capital of the world’s wealthiest and most developed nation : China during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). This week Hangzhou has again been the center of the world’s attention thanks to the G20 summit. The world’s spotlight falls on Hangzhou’s most famous historical landmark the West Lake , as well as its most famous local company AliBaba, the world’s largest ecommerce company. AliBaba’s founder and chairman Jack Ma is a Hangzhou native. He has boasted that “Hangzhou has become the driving force of China’s new economy” and as the city’s chief volunteer tourist guide since his 11th birthday,  Ma joyfully recommends G20 visitors rise at 5 am to walk around the West Lake   AliBaba has changed Hangzhou and changed China. But to grasp the full extent of that change, world leaders should venture out from Hangzhou and visit some of China’s smallest, poorest and most remote rural villages. Here AliBaba’s impact is the most transformational. AliBaba has made a special effort to bring the benefits and convenience of online trading to China’s rural families – the 45% of China’s population that still live on the land. Its impossible to overstate the importance of this effort.   Ecommerce now offers the fastest and most durable way to improve living standards in China’s countryside. By getting online, farmers can shop more widely and buy more cheaply a vast range of products never before available in rural China. In addition, they can sell directly their farm products, both fresh and packaged, to tens of millions of customers living in cities across China.  Alibaba is paying for tens of thousands of “Village Taobao” centres across China. Here, farmers can get free help to buy and sell online. Nowhere else on the planet is ecommerce being as successfully introduced into the lives of small village farmers. The world should take note, and China should take pride.  As world leaders discuss trade, fostering innovation, and eradicating poverty, we should all wish them well. Meanwhile AliBaba is busy putting such talk into action. Its efforts provide concrete proof of how tech innovation can be inclusive and helpful to all of society.  …
Added by chris macrae at 7:47pm on September 6, 2016
Topic: help under 30s
in www.digitalcooperation.org with jack ma and Melinda gates to ITU-4 year plan, world economic forum IR4 hubs, WTO mediation and 5000 person summit meodertaed by Artificial Intelliugnee gude Sophia nominate latest changes in youtheconomies.com -Amazon shows 220 places in USA that they never had a chance of being one of its 2 new superhuns- lomg island new York port and DC_VIrgina power networking added to its superhub seattle Shanghai hosts world first- import summit -who wants to sell what to Chinese Phillipines eneters top 20 strategic cooperations with China - see 29 memorandum of understanding- please note that ever since China's G20 there are 2 sources to search for jobs creating trade partnerships with china- tech woolrd partnerships which connect with jack ma curricula eg digitalcoopertaion at UN, IR$ at WEF or place leaders with xi jinping and anyone representing the top 10 partnersing regions of china which are designed by BRI regions eg 2018 is 50th year of designing 4000 moore commns tech than 1946 …
Added by chris macrae at 1:22pm on November 20, 2018
Comment on: Topic 'What Alumni etc of World Record Job Creator Jim Kim are You Looking For'
Transforming World Trade: Global Value Chains and Development jim kim talks about ali baba at minute 7.45
Added by chris macrae at 2:51pm on October 12, 2014
Topic: Norman and L20 summit cannes
elected representatives of trade unions from G20 countries, representing the voice of workers. General Secretaries and Presidents of trade unions are charged with a responsibility to uphold the interests of working people. For many years the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OCED have brought together labour leaders at G8 and G20 summits. Together those labour leaders have represented the interests of working people in discussions with world leaders at such events. For the first time, with the support of the G20 host government in 2011, labour leaders have moved to the centre stage of theG20 in Cannes. The French Presidency of the G20 has put great importance on social dialogue recognising the role of trade unions. As the global economy faces a jobs and growth emergency, the G20 is faced with many challenges. Challenges that for many people are a daily reality, as they struggle to find work, send their children to school and keep a roof over their heads. For L20 leaders, employment needs to be at the centre of recovery action plans, requiring G20 governments to prioritise raising demand and restoring growth. In addition, development and financial regulation are issues the G20 needs to prioritise. The proposals for recovery plans from the L20 will be delivered to Heads of State and Government and must be taken into account in the final G20 conclusions. Click here to find the Global Unions' Statement To the G20 Summit Cannes …
Added by chris macrae at 12:18pm on November 2, 2011
Comment on: Topic 'Norman Macrae : Books & Surveys at The Economist'
ustin Trudeau Borlaug RIP Ray Andersen RIP   #BR5 W Euro Prince Charles Pope Francis Soros Danny Alexander BBC nature #BR4 E Euro Lichtenstein (blockchain) Schwab #BR3 Russia Gorbachev #BR2 S Asia Sir Fazle Abed Nilekani CK Prahalad decesased #BE1 Far East CEO soiftbank Mahbubani Moon Jae-In #BR12 UN+ Guterres  Jack Ma , Melinda Gates heads of UNCTAD, UNHABITART and UNGA Jim Kim WB #BR11 Arctic Circle #BR10 Latin America Paulo Freire #BR9 Africa #BR8 Med Sea #BR7 Mid East & Stans Sheikha Moza Queen Rania Founding family Dubai Supercity #BR0 China Xi Jinping , Jin Liquin, Leaders of baidu ten cent (Ma see BR12) Guo Guangchang   Old Word Trade Up to 1500, the main world trade map looked like this. Crossroads Beirut: N & W to Europe, South and West to Africa- East along latitude 30 all across Asia to China : The Silk Road. Those places in Europe and Africa sharing med sea coastal belt could sail to and from Beirut . Few people explored the whole silk road like Marco Polo's 7 year trek, Rather it was a really hundreds of neighbors who kept traders safe and valued diversity of being connecfion of the world's market ( places didnt do that would be diverted round). Apart from gold, the main currencies came from China in form of spices and silks. Both light enough to transport- and the further they traded from their source of origin the more their rarity value appreciated Then around 1500 came the discovery of two new mercantile navigation routes: west of Europe to the new world of the Americas and around Africa to the southern coastal belt of Asia ,  processes of colonization started. Unknowingly as well as knowingly the empire mindset dictated what it wanted to trade, when trade is all take with no regard to how the other side needs tio develop the result is the colonised economy become smaller and smaller. Those who had immigrated to USA ended this outcome  with their declartaion of independence, but colonization of the old world by Euripe of Africa and Asia continued. Notably the British were the dominant colonisers of places facing that south Asian coastal belt. The whole of the Indian subcomtient – the largest population in the world was colonised. Their share of world market went down from over 20% to about 5%. By 1860 the English had got to China. Whilst not attempting to colonise China, the English proposed to pay for the highly desired speoices and silks with Opium. Soon the consequence was that China closed its borders to world trade for more than a century. Its share of production also plummeted from being close to its populations share of about 20% to something less than 10%. After 2 world wars it was clear that both the European pattern of big get bigger nation even if this means war or colonization needed to stop. Going post-colonial in a way that developed all the peoples entrepreneurial freedoms also not proved simple for many reasons - heritage of top-down rule, low tax base, many countries inheriting boundaries which may have been convenient for the empire in controling peoples with different cultures but were the borders don't make natural or trading sense (eg landlocked nations) All of this adds to the mapping that now needs to be made transparent if worldwide youth and livelihoods are to emerge as the sustainability generation in which every community thrives From the viewpoint of 1946, the big lesson from world war 1 had been don’t punish the peoples of a losing nation by forfeiture of land. Offer them a peaceful way to redevelop as fast as possible. This America most generously did both to West Germany and to Japan in the far east. Adding to American this generosity, we would note this critical world record job creators of 1946-1967. 46-53 gandhi - prepping independence of a fifth of world's people, von neumann programabkle computing plus 53-60 deming leaps in engineering quality 60-67 jfk sigbature vision of mo0n race (assasinated 1963)    BRI.school - hear are some examples of Belt Road mapping along which today's world record jobs creators c0-create. Because of both BRICS and SCO some fascinating colabikratiin projects are goin on woud br3 – they tend to specialize in helpoing people previously landlocked Trains across 26 nations Cyber security – when you have huge lands -internal security can be as much an issue as extrenal- alos boirders are complex Drones etc for checking huge agricultiural space Potentially the largest scale nww and old energy projects- which new ones woirk Most countries part oftehse clubes have said 1 they want ecommerce training 2 thyey want to catch up on eg mobile paytets albeit in their own cntexts 3 they want to make -border documents steamlioned It is quite likely that the whole of ursais will agree all but 10 big markets which can be a sme free tarde zone- they realise the peoples need ,local marklets   Br1 Where most useful engineering etach and leapfrogs has been innovated sinec 9150 These countries are mot wedded to wetsrn mass media so interested in much more human models There are some graret specialities- singpapie=re way ahead on culture, properetty, learning (-new zzalend too) There are great dispora connections whihch jack ma is able to tap into – Taiwan china hkonkong japan- by making digital progress he can help unite region past old greinave]=nces The road top alibabolympics his hnt for markets he doesn’t know how to get to with commerce Suoercitied isddeas shared between internal chuan cities br1 coties and who els E See also whet emit partrners – eg the 6 mit fablabs Or wher shwab ir4 parthers Or wher damo partbers See pods – ansaluyis of 5 million starts ups why softbank bought we work +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==   With nesrlybhalf of world ;population indai and chna need t share sustainabiliyu solution China has yried to on -railriads that cpuld be wini0wn for who,e ergeion On new dev bankog projetsc It would hbe happy to share lot of wht jack ma knows how to do- best match Nilekani Bagldesh gork power has lot of simlutions it will share with any fireds of jack ma Prince charels would happinly help to reconcile conflicts that after all uk mainly made as would other commonwealth memner India needs health andedu tech that everyone else can help witg -see alos un pamels where india and jack ma share space Several wise winners some form s asia – as shpuld do city mintessori Br2 where halp people live’where women have advane village world and bfreatest leapfrom odels for a billion have emerged   All of over village wprld, montessor ifor,at valued bta perantgly less so by indioa Fgoes back to pre-digital dsys with brac and ckprahald But mow poerntially in strorods – depend son which nig data small parrenrs jack m can make And dependes where will there be edutech breaktgorpghs of same order of impa=oractoce as fintech   Sme basic agricultrure comes from br2 Sme luxury agriculture form br1 and bro…
Added by chris macrae at 9:42am on October 19, 2018
Topic: world record jobs fieldguide
sustainability generation We also use 13 mapping codes so that you can view market redesign as a function of places you connect with most There is a time dynamic too. up to 1995 most markets were pre-digital in design- from 1996 some regions started urgent experiments in digital design A lot of the conflicts of today's era of racing to borderless sustainability are rooted in future's history- so where relevant we note 12 different time codes in 7 year periods ranging from 1946-53 through to 2023-30. Our hypothesis is that ours species has doubled its investment i  mobilising connectivity (eg computing, communications, infrastruture) technologies every 7 years since 1946. That will be over 4000 time more 2030 versus 1946. That timeline framing was started by my father in The Economist at the time of moon landing. He called this entrepreneurial revolution and argued that organisations constitutions  and professions would need to adapt ahead of time if they were to help peoples and community achieve sustainability all over the world. THE FORREST GUMP OF GLOBALIZATION MEDIA My father famous for paradoxically being an optimistic rationalist also had a habit of making annual surveys where he visited a country on the other side of the world and asked how could everyone help these peoples join in win-win trade. The rest of the time he sat in the same London office fir 40 years sub-editing The Economist around his keynsian inspired speciality ending poverty. Friday lunchtime was institutionalised in London's Sain James as a time when any leadre could drop in on off the record debate of what conflicts to try to reconcile next around the globe. Father had served as a teenager navigating ariplanes in world war 2 over mkidernday bangaldesh. It was his belief thatthe root cause iof teh woreld wars was over 400 yeras of colinsation which had imposed trades in such a ays that most natiosn economies had been decimated while the empirikng nations grew bigger and bigger. Thus father took the opportunity to celebatrate every chnane in world trade towards win-wins. Notably the british mercantile impact on the whole of the south and east Eurasia coasts reduced the economies of the world's largest population idnia and china (each about one fifth of humanity) from being proportionate to population size in 1500 to being minor in terms of gdp in 1946. Norman would therefore have fully supported debates as to how could silk raids and other win-win trading routes happily reconnect peoples across continentwide railRoads and via coastal belt's superports. In fact his 1977 survey of China optimistically records that china is coming out to the world to marje again (after 110 years of closing itslkf rather than accepting the british insistence that opium be used as a currency to trade with china's silks and spices). By now sustainability would depend on how all world wide youth friends chinese youth according to Norman's 1977 viewing. 14%20surveys%20on%20global%20peoples.pptx download this file to one click through to every survey IN our guide we see finance and education best reported in these terms which we revisit in several chapters throughout the book Communities now need everyone to be free to be a banker, a skills learner and a skill coach at diferent stages of life.…
Added by chris macrae at 10:20am on August 17, 2018
Topic: www Youth's most valuable lessons- which macroeconomists of too big to fail will not learn in time for sustainability
here greatest reconciliation of old empire's poverty traps needs to be mediated that's where a world reserve currency will need to be weighted (if there is one);; world reserve currencies need to be designed around linkin in greatest inter-generation growth fortunately if we look at world trade models of japan rising (The Economist 1962) we see a nation which seeks to win-win trade with other nations -especially with productivity across its neighbouring hemisphere by serving value demands of the then richer hemisphere 1984:  8 times more affordable healthcare should be possible -for a more interactive way of mapping this 2-cubed valuation opportunity - see venn diagrams in attached slides 2 times as most life critical information net generation can mobilese around - nb knowhow's economy multiplies value in use unlike consuming up things 2 times (since virtual and real age productivity remaps every system design) seize on opportunity to make healthcare 2 times less costly than it has already got through lots of short-term political fixes and failure to design organisations that continuously improve instead of forces that add costs (lawyers, patented pharma (read jim kim on what it takes to design an industry's value value chain for 99% of people instead of 1$ aiming to make it more costly), unmotivating service conditions, lack of celebrating eg nursing as  a career begins with not offering virtually free nursing colleges) 2 times since if we dont turn round towards better value the system will compound even more costs- politicians will play to the voting old and healthcare will destroy future economy as the next generation pay for its debts- note how popuation bubble in old NW economies of wrongly focusing on extending unproductive lives rather than focusing on youth has vicious impacts designing future war between old and what youth need to be sustainable All of these issues also connect with how we design the worldwide web - will it bring down degrees of separation on life critical information? What are the connection of helathcare and eg nutrition (obesity and malnutrition being 2 huge costs wherever local food systems or knowledge is poor or misrepresented by advertising) lesson economist 1972 if economics is to advance the human lot then we should want to be advancing win-wins between rich and poor hemispheres- that will also mean that west hemisphere goes into trade deficit with east- the greatest risk will be if the false planning science of macroeconomists fails to prepare for that while respecting the even more micro dynamic that ultimately no place grows unless capital structures family savings to invest in next generation's livelihoods out of that place's community 4 of the trillion dollar audits start of 21st will need to value whole truth around- village sustaining economies twinning capitals in youth jobs expos supranational economies win-win nation sustaining economies (including webbed ones directly trading between world citizens especially of knowhow that multiplies value in use and which can be mobilised at no cost of distance) …
Added by chris macrae at 3:24am on March 30, 2014
Topic: Asia Pacific www rising
bundance of how actionable knowhow multiplies value in use and when linked through trusted grassroots networks- very opposite to zero-sum consuming up things models that were rife in the 20th and extractive. externalisation century japan from 1962 focused on internal food security (fresh fish, rice, yam ,,,..)  and external world class quality innovation fast moving sectors that changed what modern life could be about everywhere -electronics, reliable cars etc - its model also planted in eg south korea -japan as a top 3 nation in second half of 20th century has benefited from governments spending less than 5% on arms compared with many big governments 20% and aid policies which genuinely shared knowledge with peoples - for world leading crop science see nippon institute- for cooperative trade development study the JICA family of agencies and citizen exchnanges expatriate chinese model was superport trading and (hong kong, singapore, taiwan) and then supporting metacities - first in such asian countries as Indonesia's Jakarta, Thailand's Bangkok . Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur  (in 4th quarter of 20th C mainland china)- - by 1976 expatriate china was already the 3rd largest wealth dynamic- so while mainland china's race to develop has been miraculous and merits celebration by all entrepreneurial millennials , it was a unique case bangladesh however provides arguable the greatest miracle of all poverty ended by the poorest village mothers networking Asia Pacific 70 year journey starting in 1945 - may 12, The Economist   1962 tracking how japan rose to number 2 1975 tracking how asia pacific rose to number 1 and Chinese diaspora soon 3rd richest extraordinary portals for Chinese and Asian Investors- Singapore; Hong Kong; Taiwan 2014 China number 1 trading nations   the rise of south korea   Asian Tigers and other Asia Rising given he relationship in the middle of the 19th C of the founder of The Economist and the Chartered Bank, this account may be quite timely- The Economist June 1946 The Economist 7 Sept 1946 The Critical Impact of Rice Trade 21 sept 1946 Malaya's dependent on market for rubber could not be over-estimated How Free Asia Emerged ... …
Added by chris macrae at 4:04pm on January 15, 2014
Topic: How the economist was launched in 1843 and other stories about scottish founder james wislon
ardent desires, in the following PROSPECTUS of a weekly paper, to be published every Saturday, and to be called Related items From the archive: Preliminary number and prospectusAug 5th 1843 Coffee and sugarAug 5th 1843 SugarAug 5th 1843 Wool, &c.Aug 5th 1843 WheatAug 5th 1843 Related topics Europe Free trade Western Europe Trade Business THE ECONOMIST, which will contain— First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day—political events—and parliamentary discussions; and particularly to all such as relate immediately to revenue, commerce, and agriculture; or otherwise affect the material interests of the country. Second.—Articles relating more especially to some practical, commercial, agricultural, or foreign topic of passing interest; of the state of the revenue, foreign treaties, &c. Third.—An article on the elementary principles of political economy, applied in a familiar and popular manner to practical experience; especially in relation to the laws of price—wages—rent—exchange—revenue—taxes—and the relation between producers and consumers abroad and at home; proved and illustrated by the experience of this and other countries. Fourth.—PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS: Giving at greater length all discussions peculiarly interesting to commerce and agriculture, and especially involving the principles of Free Trade. Fifth.—POPULAR MOVEMENTS: A report and account of all popular movements throughout the country in favour of Free Trade. Sixth.—GENERAL NEWS: A summary of all the news of the week,—the Court—the Metropolis—the Provinces; Scotland and Ireland. Seventh.—COMMERCIAL: Under this head a careful and elaborate account will be given of the trade of the week; with special notices of changes in fiscal regulations; state and prospects of the markets, especially indicating the progress of stocks and consumption; of imports and exports; latest Foreign News, likely to influence future supply; the state of the manufacturing districts; notices of important new mechanical improvements; shipping news; an account of the money market, and of the progress of railways and public companies. Eighth.—AGRICULTURAL: Under this head we will give frequent articles on improvements in agriculture; on the application of geology and chemistry; on new and improved implements; and in every way, to the utmost of our power, assist that true and independent spirit which is everywhere rising among the best landlords and farmers, to rely on the only safe support agriculture can have—intelligence, ingenuity, and perseverance, instead of deceptive protection. We will give a general detail of incidents, state of crops, markets, prices, foreign markets and prices converted into English money; and we have made an arrangement to communicate, from time to time, in some detail, the plans pursued in Belgium, Switzerland, and other well-cultivated countries. Ninth.—COLONIAL AND FOREIGN: In which we will furnish the earliest information respecting the trade, produce, political and fiscal changes, and other matter interesting; and, particularly, we will endeavour to expose the evils of restriction and protection, and the advantages of free intercourse and trade. Tenth.—LAW REPORTS: These we will confine chiefly to such as are particularly important to commerce, manufactures, and agriculture. Eleventh.—NOTICE OF BOOKS: Confined chiefly, but not so exclusively, to such as treat of the foregoing subjects; including all treatises on political economy, finance, or taxation. Twelfth.—COMMERCIAL GAZETTE: Price currents and statistics of the week. Thirteenth.—CORRESPONDENCE, INQUIRIES, &c.: Under this head we especially invite every one to apply for information on all the topics herein enumerated, which we do not furnish, or which is not given in such details as may be required. We have made an arrangement by which inquiries shall be replied to in the next number, if received by Thursday morning, on all subjects enumerated in this prospectus:—POLITICAL ECONOMY AND COMMERCE; FOREIGN COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS; TARIFFS, RATES OF DUTIES, AND PORT REGULATIONS; EXISTING COMMERCIAL TREATIES; POINTS OF COMMERCIAL LAW; GENERAL STATISTICS, connected with our trade for the last twenty years, or earlier, when they exist; AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS AND IMPROVEMENTS; and on other practical and economical subjects required. EXTRA MONTHLY STATISTICAL AND PARLIAMENTARY PAPER NUMBER:—In each month we will publish an extra number, devoted exclusively to statistics, and the preservation of the statistical parts of documents laid before parliament; many of which, of great value, never at present reach the public eye, or at least in a very limited way. There can be no question that, whether we speak of the economist, the legislator, the merchant, or the trader, statistics must form the most important ground-work of the whole of his reasonings, opinions, and actions; they are, in short, the fundamental facts on which all his opinions and actions must be based to be true; it is difficult to estimate their importance. At the same time we must remark, that however powerful and useful they may be as an instrument, they cannot be used with safety without considerable knowledge of the peculiar subjects, and without the exercise of great discretion in drawing results. This we will endeavour to aid by explanatory notes and observations in the collection and arrangement. Our plan is,—to divide this monthly number into two parts, one for permanent statistics, in which we will commence and collect together in alphabetical order the statistics of our revenue and trade, including exports and imports, navigation, agriculture, and currency for the last twenty years:—the trade with our colonies, and of our colonies with each other, and with this country:—and various interesting statistical statements which we can get relating to the same subjects in foreign countries: the other part we will apply to the statistics of the day: the comparison of our trade, imports, exports, consumption, stocks, &c., of all the leading articles of commerce, between the current year and the corresponding period of the preceding year: and other matters useful and interesting to the material interests of the country. And at the end of each year, we will furnish a title-page and general index to the whole paper, including the statistical numbers, so that the whole may form a useful volume of reference to the economist, the politician, the merchant, and manufacturer, the agriculturalist, and the general reader. We have made such arrangements and under such superintendence, as will secure the accomplishment of all that we propose, in a way which we trust will render our objects and exertions useful to the country: we have no party or class interests or motives; we are of no class, or rather of every class: we are of the landowning class: we are of the commercial class interested in our colonies, in our foreign trade, and in our manufactures: but our opinions are that not one part of these can have any lasting and true success that is not associated and co-existing with the prosperity of all. And lastly—if we required higher motives than bare utility, to induce that zeal, labour, and perseverance against all the difficulties which we shall have to encounter in this work—we have them. If we look abroad, we see within the range of our commercial intercourse whole islands and continents, on which the light of civilization has scarce yet dawned; and we seriously believe that FREE TRADE, free intercourse, will do more than any other visible agent to extend civilization and morality throughout the world—yes, to extinguish slavery itself. Then, if we look around us at home, we see ignorance, depravity, immorality, irreligion, abounding to an extent disgraceful to a civilized country; and we feel assured that there is little chance of successfully treating this great national disease while want and pauperism so much abound: we can little hope to improve the mental and moral condition of a people while their physical state is so deplorable:—personal experience has shown us in the manufacturing districts that the people want no acts of parliament to coerce education or induce moral improvement when they are in physical comfort—and that, when men are depressed with want and hunger, and agonized by the sufferings of helpless and starving children, no acts of parliament are of the slightest avail. We look far beyond the power of acts of parliament, or even of the efforts of the philanthropist or the charitable, however praiseworthy, to effect a cure for this great national leprosy; we look mainly to an improvement in the condition of the people. And we hope to see the day when it will be as difficult to understand how an act of parliament could have been made to restrict the food and employment of the people, as it is now to conceive how the mild, inoffensive spirit of Christianity could ever have been conceived into the plea of persecution and martyrdom, or how poor old wrinkled women, with a little eccentricity, were burned by our forefathers for witchcraft.…
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ENTREPRENEURIAL REVOLUTION NETWORK BENCHMARKS 2025now : Remembering Norman Macrae

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2025REPORT-ER: Entrepreneurial Revolution est 1976; Neumann Intelligence Unit at The Economist since 1951. Norman Macrae's & friends 75 year mediation of engineers of computing & autonomous machines  has reached overtime: Big Brother vs Little Sister !?

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- 3/21/22 HAPPY 50th Birthday TO WORLD'S MOST SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY- ASIAN WOMEN SUPERVILLAGE

Since gaining my MA statistics Cambridge DAMTP 1973 (Corpus Christi College) my special sibject has been community building networks- these are the 6 most exciting collaboration opportunities my life has been privileged to map - the first two evolved as grassroots person to person networks before 1996 in tropical Asian places where village women had no access to electricity grids nor phones- then came mobile and solar entrepreneurial revolutions!! 

COLLAB platforms of livesmatter communities to mediate public and private -poorest village mothers empowering end of poverty    5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5  5.6


4 livelihood edu for all 

4.1  4.2  4.3  4.4  4.5 4.6


3 last mile health services  3.1 3,2  3.3  3.4   3.5   3.6


last mile nutrition  2.1   2.2   2.3   2.4  2.5  2,6


banking for all workers  1.1  1.2  1.3   1.4   1.5   1.6


NEWS FROM LIBRARY NORMAN MACRAE -latest publication 2021 translation into japanese biography of von neumann:

Below: neat German catalogue (about half of dad's signed works) but expensive  -interesting to see how Germans selected the parts  they like over time: eg omitted 1962 Consider Japan The Economist 

feel free to ask if free versions are available 

0 The coming entrepreneurial revolution : a survey Macrae, Norman - In: The economist 261 (1976), pp. 41-65 cited 105 

 Macrae,Norman -1976
cited 21
2 The London Capital Market : its structure, strains and management Macrae, Norman - 1955
 Macrae,Norman - 1963  
Macrae, Norman - In: IPA review / Institute of PublicAffairs 25 (1971) 3, pp. 67-72  
 Macrae, Norman - The Economist 257 (1975), pp. 1-44 
6 The future of international business Macrae, Norman - In: Transnational corporations and world order : readings …, (pp. 373-385). 1979 >
7 Future U.S. growth and leadershipMacrae, Norman - In: FutureQuest : new views of economic growth, (pp. 49-60). 1977 Check Google Scholar | 
Future U.S. growth and leadership assessed from abroad Macrae, Norman - In: Prospects for growth : changing expectations for the future, (pp. 127-140). 1977 Check Google Scholar | 
9Entrepreneurial Revolution - next capitalism: in hi-tech left=right=center; The Economist 1976
 9bis Into entrepreneurial socialism Macrae, Norman - In: The economist 286 (1983), pp. 23-29 
10 Do We Want a Fat, Corrupt Russia or a Thin, Dangerous One?
N Macrae - Worldview, 1981 - cambridge.org
… Even if Japan scales up efforts in military defense after such clarification, Japan's defense
spending is estimated to remain within 2 per cent of its GNP. Serious consideration should be
given to the fact that realization of new defense policies and military buildup in Japan is 
 11 Must Japan slow? : a survey Macrae, Norman -  The Economist 274 (1980), pp. 1-42 
12 No Christ on the Andes : an economic survey of Latin America by the Economist
 
13Oh, Brazil : a survey Macrae, Norman - The Economist 272 (1979), pp. 1-22 
14To let? : a study of the expedient pledge on rents included in the Conservative election manifesto in Oct., 1959 Macrae, Norman - 1960  
 15 Toward monetary stability : an evolutionary tale of a snake and an emu
Macrae, Norman -In: European community (1978), pp. 3-6
16 Whatever happened to British planning? Macrae, Norman - CapitalismToday, (pp. 140-148). 1971 Check Google Scholar | 
  Macrae, Norman - In: Kapitalismus heute, (pp. 191-204). 1974
18 How the EEC makes decisions MacRae, Norman - In: Readings in international business, (pp. 193-200). 1972 Check Google Scholar | 
Macrae, Norman - 1972
20 The London Capital Market : Its structure, strains and management Macrae, Norman - 1955
 21 The coming revolution in communications and its implications for business Macrae, Norman - 1978
 22 A longer-term perspective on international stability : thirteen propositions
Macrae, Norman; Bjøl, Erling - In: Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift 114 (1976) 1, pp. 158-168
Full text | 
23a 
Homes for the people
Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - 1967
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 The risen sun : Japan ; a survey by the Economist Macrae, Norman - In: The economist 223 (1967), pp. 1-32,1-29 Check full text access | 
MacFarquhar, Emily; Beedham, Brian; Macrae, Norman - The Economist 265 (1977), pp. 13-42
27 FIRST: - Heresies - Russia's economy is rotten to the core. The West should concentrate on exploiting profitable opportunities to improve it, not on supporting particular politicia...
28 The Hobart century : publ. by the Institute of Economic Affairs
Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - 1984
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29 REINVENTING SOCIETY
Macrae, Norman - In: Economic affairs : journal of the Institute of Economic … 14 (1994) 3, pp. 38-39
30  How the EEC makes decisions
Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - In: The Atlantic community quarterly 8 (1970) 3, pp. 363-371 and in
How the EEC makes decisions
MacRae, Norman - In: Readings in international business, (pp. 193-200). 1972
31The green bay tree
South Africa Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - In: The economist 227 (1968), pp. 9-46
32 A longer-term perspective on international stability : thirteen propositions
Macrae, Norman; Bjøl, Erling - In: Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift 114 (1976) 1, pp. 158-168

. we scots are less than 4/1000 of the worlds and 3/4 are Diaspora - immigrants in others countries. Since 2008 I have been celebrating Bangladesh Women Empowerment solutions wth NY graduates. Now I want to host love each others events in new york starting this week with hong kong-contact me if we can celebrate anoither countries winm-wins with new yorkers

mapping OTHER ECONOMIES:

50 SMALLEST ISLAND NATIONS

TWO Macroeconomies FROM SIXTH OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WHITE & war-prone

ADemocratic

Russian

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From 60%+ people =Asian Supercity (60TH YEAR OF ECONOMIST REPORTING - SEE CONSIDER JAPAN1962)

Far South - eg African, Latin Am, Australasia

Earth's other economies : Arctic, Antarctic, Dessert, Rainforest

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In addition to how the 5 primary sdgs1-5 are gravitated we see 6 transformation factors as most critical to sustainability of 2020-2025-2030

Xfactors to 2030 Xclimate XAI Xinfra Xyouth Wwomen Xpoor chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk (scot currently  in washington DC)- in 1984 i co-authored 2025 report with dad norman.

Asia Rising Surveys

  • 1962 Consider Japan: 1967 Japan Rising part 2.1
    • 7 May 1977 survey of Two Billion People- Asia
    • 1975 Asian Pacific Century 1975-2075 1977 survey China

  • The Economist.  Can we help peoples of Russia 1963..


    The Economist. what do Latin Americans need  1965.

     
    The Economist. Saturday, has washington dc lost happiness for ever? 1969.

Entrepreneurial Revolution -would endgame of one 40-year generations of applying Industrial Revolution 3,4 lead to sustainability of extinction

1972's Next 40 Years ;1976's Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution; 12 week leaders debate 1982's We're All Intrapreneurial Now

  • What will human race produce in 20th C Q4? - Jan 1975
  • (1984 book 2025 vreport on net generation 3 billion job creation) ...translated in different languages to 1993's Sweden's new vikings
  • 1991 Survey looking forward to The End of Politicians
  • 1996 oxford union debate- why political systems can adapt ahead of time to sustainability changes millennials will encounter
  • biography of von neumann in English and Japanese

The Economist had been founded   in 1843" marking one of 6 exponential timeframes "Future Histores"

IN ASSOCIATION WITH ADAMSMITH.app :

we offer worldwide mapping view points from

1 2 now to 2025-30

and these viewpoints:

40 years ago -early 1980s when we first framed 2025 report;

from 1960s when 100 times more tech per decade was due to compound industrial revolutions 3,4 

1945 birth of UN

1843 when the economist was founded

1760s - adam smithian 2 views : last of pre-engineering era; first 16 years of engineering ra including america's declaration of independence- in essence this meant that to 1914 continental scaling of engineeriing would be separate new world <.old world

conomistwomen.com

IF we 8 billion earthlings of the 2020s are to celebrate collaboration escapes from extinction, the knowhow of the billion asian poorest women networks will be invaluable -

in mathematically connected ways so will the stories of diaspora scots and the greatest mathematicians ever home schooled -central european jewish teens who emigrated eg Neumann , Einstein ... to USA 2nd quarter of the 20th century; it is on such diversity that entrepreneurial revolution diaries have been shaped 

EconomistPOOR.com : Dad was born in the USSR in 1923 - his dad served in British Embassies. Dad's curiosity enjoyed the opposite of a standard examined education. From 11+ Norman observed results of domination of humans by mad white men - Stalin from being in British Embassy in Moscow to 1936; Hitler in Embassy of last Adriatic port used by Jews to escape Hitler. Then dad spent his last days as a teen in allied bomber command navigating airplanes stationed at modernday Myanmar. Surviving thanks to the Americas dad was in Keynes last class where he was taught that only a handful of system designers control what futures are possible. EconomistScotland.com AbedMooc.com

To help mediate such, question every world eventwith optimistic rationalism, my father's 2000 articles at The Economist interpret all sorts of future spins. After his 15th year he was permitted one signed survey a year. In the mid 1950s he had met John Von Neumann whom he become biographer to , and was the only journalist at Messina's's birth of EU. == If you only have time for one download this one page tour of COLLABorations composed by Fazle Abed and networked by billion poorest village women offers clues to sustainability from the ground up like no white ruler has ever felt or morally audited. by London Scot James Wilson. Could Queen Victoria change empire fro slavemaking to commonwealth? Some say Victoria liked the challenge James set her, others that she gave him a poison pill assignment. Thus James arrived in Calcutta 1860 with the Queens permission to charter a bank by and for Indian people. Within 9 months he died of diarrhea. 75 years later Calcutta was where the Young Fazle Abed grew up - his family accounted for some of the biggest traders. Only to be partitioned back at age 11 to his family's home region in the far north east of what had been British Raj India but was now to be ruled by Pakistan for 25 years. Age 18 Abed made the trek to Glasgow University to study naval engineering.

  • 0 China 
  • 1 Japan/Asean
  • 2 Bangla and India
  • 3 Russia
  • 4 East Euro
  • 5 West Euro
  • 6 Usa & Canada

new york

  • 7 Middle East & Stans
  • 8 Med Sea
  • 9 Africa
  • 10 Latin Am /Carib
  • 11 Arctic Circle
  • 12 UN

1943 marked centenary autobio of The Economist and my teenage dad Norman prepping to be navigator allied bomber command Burma Campaign -thanks to US dad survived, finished in last class of Keynes. before starting 5 decades at The Economist; after 15 years he was allowed to sign one survey a year starting in 1962 with the scoop that Japan (Korea S, Taiwan soon hk singapore) had found development mp0de;s for all Asian to rise. Rural Keynes could end village poverty & starvation; supercity win-win trades could celebrate Neumanns gift of 100 times more tech per decade (see macrae bio of von neumann)

Since 1960 the legacy of von neumann means ever decade multiplies 100 times more micro-technology- an unprecedented time for better or worse of all earthdwellers; 2025 timelined and mapped innovation exponentials - education, health, go green etc - (opportunities threats) to celebrating sustainability generation by 2025; dad parted from earth 2010; since then 2 journals by adam smith scholars out of Glasgow where engines began in 1760- Social Business; New Economics have invited academic worlds and young graduates to question where the human race is going - after 30 business trips to wealthier parts of Asia, through 2010s I have mainly sherpa's young journalist to Bangladesh - we are filing 50 years of cases on women empowerment at these web sites AbedMOOC.com FazleAbed.com EconomistPoor.com EconomistUN.com WorldRecordjobs.com Economistwomen.com Economistyouth.com EconomistDiary.com UNsummitfuture.com - in my view how a billion asian women linked together to end extreme poverty across continental asia is the greatest and happiest miracle anyone can take notes on - please note the rest of this column does not reflect my current maps of how or where the younger half of the world need to linkin to be the first sdg generation......its more like an old scrap book

 how do humans design futures?-in the 2020s decade of the sdgs – this question has never had more urgency. to be or not to be/ – ref to lessons of deming or keynes, or glasgow university alumni smith and 200 years of hi-trust economics mapmaking later fazle abed - we now know how-a man made system is defined by one goal uniting generations- a system multiplies connected peoples work and demands either accelerating progress to its goal or collapsing - sir fazle abed died dec 2020 - so who are his most active scholars climate adaptability where cop26 november will be a great chance to renuite with 260 years of adam smith and james watts purposes t end poverty-specifically we interpret sdg 1 as meaning next girl or boy born has fair chance at free happy an productive life as we seek to make any community a child is born into a thriving space to grow up between discover of new worlds in 1500 and 1945 systems got worse and worse on the goal eg processes like slavery emerged- and ultimately the world was designed around a handful of big empires and often only the most powerful men in those empires. 4 amazing human-tech systems were invented to start massive use by 1960 borlaug agriculture and related solutions every poorest village (2/3people still had no access to electricity) could action learn person to person- deming engineering whose goal was zero defects by helping workers humanize machines- this could even allowed thousands of small suppliers to be best at one part in machines assembled from all those parts) – although americans invented these solution asia most needed them and joyfully became world class at them- up to 2 billion people were helped to end poverty through sharing this knowhow- unlike consuming up things actionable knowhow multiplies value in use when it links through every community that needs it the other two technologies space and media and satellite telecoms, and digital analytic power looked promising- by 1965 alumni of moore promised to multiply 100 fold efficiency of these core tech each decade to 2030- that would be a trillion tmes moore than was needed to land on the moon in 1960s. you might think this tech could improve race to end poverty- and initially it did but by 1990 it was designed around the long term goal of making 10 men richer than 40% poorest- these men also got involved in complex vested interests so that the vast majority of politicians in brussels and dc backed the big get bigger - often they used fake media to hide what they were doing to climate and other stuff that a world trebling in population size d\ - we the 3 generations children parents grandparents have until 2030 to design new system orbits gravitated around goal 1 and navigating the un's other 17 goals do you want to help/ 8 cities we spend most time helping students exchange sustainability solutions 2018-2019 BR0 Beijing Hangzhou: 

Girls world maps begin at B01 good news reporting with fazleabed.com  valuetrue.com and womenuni.com

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online library of norman macrae--

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Ma10.1 DT and ODPS

  • 1972's Next 40 Years ;
  • 1976's Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution; 12 week leaders debate
  • 1982's We're All Intrapreneurial Now
  • What will human race produce in 20th C Q4? - Jan 1975
  • (1984 book on net generation 3 billion job creation) ...
  • 1991 Survey looking forward to The End of Politicians
  • 1975 Asian Pacific Century 1975-2075
  • 1977 survey China
  • first of 4 hemisphere remembrance parties- The Economist Boardroom

health catalogue; energy catalogue

Keynes: 2025now - jobs Creating Gen

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how poorest women in world build

A01 BRAC health system,

A02 BRAC education system,

A03 BRAC banking system

K01 Twin Health System - Haiti& Boston

Past events EconomistDiary.com

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