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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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Better batteries, better world

August 12, 2013—Thanks to breakthroughs on the horizon, batteries qualify as one of 12 disruptive technologies that the McKinsey Global Institute has identified as part of a recent report on innovations that will change the way the world works. more

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Guest post: Myanmar's moment

July 15, 2013—Without growth and a rapid economic transformation that provides palpable benefits to Myanmar's citizens, the momentum towards democracy and peace could all too easily falter. Myanmar's international supporters must broaden the dialogue beyond political reform and the peace process to how they can also support this economic transformation, write Richard Dobbs and Michael Spence in Financial Times.more

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Why isn't disruptive technology lifting us out of the recession?

June 11, 2013—The weakness of the economic recovery in advanced economies raises questions about the ability of new technologies to drive growth. After all, in the years since the global financial crisis, consumers in advanced economies have adopted new technologies such as mobile Internet services, and companies have invested in big data and cloud computing. Yet nations such as the United States that lead the world in technology adoption are seeing only middling GDP growth and continue to struggle with high unemployment, write Martin Neil Baily and James Manyika in Yahoo! Finance.more

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Myanmar's Moment?

June 7, 2013—Interest in Myanmar has become intense. This focus is not surprising. After years of economic isolation and anemic growth, Myanmar is one of Asia’s last largely untapped markets. Now that the country is opening up, investors are clearly hoping to establish sources of structural advantage that could last for many years, write Martin N. Baily and Richard Dobbs in Project Syndicate.more

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China's e-tail revolution

May 14, 2013—By 2020, China’s e-tail market could be as large as today’s markets in the US, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France combined, write Richard Cooper and Richard Dobbs in Project Syndicate.more

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Myanmar's Moment?

May 30, 2013—Myanmar is attracting a lot of attention these days. Economic opportunity has U.S. and Western multinationals licking their lips. International investors are actively circling this largely untapped market. And the doors are wide open, write Heang Chhor and Richard Dobbs in Foreign Policy.more

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Stalled miracle

April 16, 2013—North Korea is grabbing global headlines by threatening aggression against its neighbor to the south and the United States. And once again, South Koreans are largely shrugging off the rhetoric from the north. This nonchalance gives South Koreans the chance to focus on another existential threat - one that's not so easily dismissed as bluster. South Korea's economic success, write Richard Dobbs and Dongrok Suh in Foreign Policy. more

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Fixing the world's infrastructure problems

April 11, 2013—We all have a stake in the infrastructure surrounding us — the roads, buildings, power lines, and telephone networks that we rely on daily. How well they're built and operated is crucial to economic growth and is a key arbiter of an economy's competitiveness — and yet, virtually every economy faces an array of infrastructure challenges, write Jimmy Hexter and Jan Mischke in HBR Blog.more

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Dispelling myths about manufacturing

April 30, 2013—Recent months have brought more signs of recovery in the manufacturing sector, including new hiring, surging exports and a spate of stories about manufacturers “reshoring” jobs that had once been done overseas. Surely a manufacturing renaissance is underway?, write James Manyika and Katy George in The Washington Post.more

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Financial globalization in reverse?

April 12, 2013—The 2008 crisis exposed the dangers, with the globalized financial system’s intricate web of connections becoming a conduit for contagion. Cross-border capital flows abruptly collapsed. Almost five years later, they remain 60% below their pre-crisis peak, write Martin Baily and Susan Lund in Project Syndicate. 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

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Asia's urbanization challenge

MGI director Richard Dobbs and other experts discuss how city planners are rising to the urbanization challenge on CNBC Asia.more