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Reports issued by the McKinsey Global Institute are often cited in international media, and MGI authors frequently contribute to leading business publications. We offer a selection of articles below.

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article|Korea Times

The resource revolution opportunity for South Korea

Unless there is a step up in resource productivity and expansion in supply, the world could be entering an era of sustained high resource prices, leading to increased economic, social and geopolitical risk. Richard Dobbs writes in the Korea Times.more

article|Wall Street Journal

Beware the global 'equity gap'

MGI research projects a growing imbalance between the amount of stocks that investors will want to hold and what companies will need to fund growth. A shift away from equities would create new problems for an already-fragile world economy. Fortunately, this is one problem that has announced itself well in advance and can be averted, write Charles Roxburgh and Susan Lund in The Wall Street Journal. more

article|Financial Times

Guest Column: A great transformer

The internet is fundamentally transforming the way we work, socialize, create and share information, and organize the flow of people, ideas and things around the globe. Yet the magnitude of this transformation is often underappreciated, James Manyika and Jacques Bughin write in a column on FT.com.more

article|Harvard Business Review

Cracking the next growth market: Africa

The continent is home to many of the world’s biggest opportunities. The trick is deciding where and how to seize them, write Mutsa Chironga, Acha Leke, Susan Lund, and Arend van Wamelen in Harvard Business Review.more

article|Wall Street Journal Business Asia

Navigating Asia's new urban jungles: Selling into fast-growing cities will pose new challenges but bring big rewards

The key to tapping urban wealth in Asia will be to look beyond first-tier megacities to the second tier of "middleweights" with populations of less than 10 million, Richard Dobbs and Jaana Remes write in a Business Asia column for The Wall Street Journal.more

article|Wall Street Journal

Productivity and growth: The enduring connection

James Manyika and Vikram Malhotra explore several longstanding misconceptions that undermine rational debate on productivity in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal.more

article|Financial Times

The era of cheap capital draws to a close

Worries about hot capital moving too quickly into emerging markets could soon be replaced by an era of financial protectionism—in which governments restrict outflows of capital as a defense against rising interest rates for corporations and consumers, write Richard Dobbs and Michael Spence in a comment article for the Financial Times.more

article|Times of London

It is time to decide your priorities

The debate among British economists and politicians about economic prospects for the year has intensified but what matters more is the United Kingdom's long-term growth pattern over the next two decades, writes Charles Roxburgh in The Times.more

article|Times of London

Five key themes for the Davos delegates

It is vital that leaders make the right economic calls in the short term. But at McKinsey, we would urge a more fundamental debate about the appropriate response, particularly in developed countries, to five unstoppable long-term economic trends, Charles Roxburgh writes in the Times of London.more

article|Washington Post

Five myths about interest rates

Interest rates, which have been so low for so long that consumers and businesses have come to consider low rates an entitlement, are starting to creep upward, prompting new concerns and debates.more

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Economist—The debtors merry-go-round

The Economist's interactive guide shows levels of debt as a % of GDP for a selection of rich countries and emerging markets, drawing on MGI data. View interactive on Economist.commore

“Africa is home to many of the world's biggest opportunities. The trick is deciding where and how to seize them.”
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Right policies could double European productivity growth

MGI director Charles Roxburgh discusses Europe's productivity challenge and what it will take for the region to spur growth on Thomson Reuters Insider.more