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2018
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China Center Deep Dive Exchange Session Report: Five Years of the Belt & Road Initiative
17 December, 2018 | China Center Publications
Xi Jinping first announced the “One Belt One Road” project to the world in late 2013. Five years and one English-language name change later, the realistic prospects for the Belt and Road have begun to clarify, as has the road map for MNC engagement.
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Blue-Collar Worker Shortages: Navigating a Business Environment of Higher Labor Costs
13 December, 2018 | Key Business Issues
The threat of labor shortages is more acute in blue-collar and low-pay services occupations than in more highly educated white-collar occupations, the exact opposite of the prevailing trends in recent decades.
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Blue-Collar Worker Shortages: Navigating a Business Environment of Higher Labor Costs
13 December, 2018 | Executive Summary
The threat of labor shortages is more acute in blue-collar and low-pay services occupations than in more highly educated white-collar occupations, the exact opposite of the prevailing trends in recent decades.
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Global Growth Projections for The Conference Board Global Economic Outlook 2019
12 December, 2018 | Economics Program Working Paper Series
This paper presents the methodology for The Conference Board Global Economic Outlook 2019, which includes growth projections of GDP and underlying supply-side components for 33 mature and 36 emerging market economies for 2019-2028.
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Sustainability Practices: 2018 Edition—Trends in Corporate Sustainability Reporting in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific
12 December, 2018 | Executive Summary
Sustainability reporting is still not a uniform practice across the globe and remains sporadic in countries where nonfinancial reporting regulation and stakeholder pressures are absent.
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Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View
12 December, 2018 | Economics Watch Reports
The gap between the consumer and the business outlook widens.
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Conference Board Economics Watch® European View
12 December, 2018 | Economics Watch Reports
While economic growth moderates, internal risks have become more visible, especially in Italy and the UK.
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Conference Board Economics Watch® Emerging Markets View
12 December, 2018 | Economics Watch Reports
Consumers remain buoyant, but the outlook for exports and investment remain challenged.
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Conference Board Economics Watch® Economic Series Report
12 December, 2018 | Economics Watch Reports
Monthly economic series report.
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Disability in the Workplace in China
12 December, 2018 | China Center Publications
China has adopted a ‘carrot and stick’ approach to disability in the workplace – incentivizing companies to employ people with disabilities and fining those who don’t. The simplistic national employment quota fails to address the complexities MNCs face in recruiting, training and retaining employees with disabilities.
