Infographic: The World’s Fastest-Growing Economies
Click to enlarge Source: Key Asian Indicators: A Book of Charts, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation, July 2012
Archive of entries posted on September 2012
Comparing the Unemployment Rate in Brazil and USA
As an emerging market economy Brazil has a lower unemployment rate than the U.S. In May, the unemployment rate in Brazil stood at a seasonally adjusted rate of 5.4%. Unemployment has been trending downwards since the peak of over 13% in 2002 as shown in the chart below: Click to enlarge Source: Brazil’s Economic Chart Pack, …
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Infographic: What’s Possible for Health Care?
Interesting chart on how to improve the U.S. healthcare system: Click to Enlarge Source: Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
Forbes: The World’s Most Innovative Companies
Forbes magazine recently published its latest list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. These companies were selected based on a factor called “The Innovation Premium”. Definition of The Innovation Premium: “The Innovation Premium is a measure of how much investors have bid up the stock price of a company above the value of its existing business …
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