You might be surprised to realize that the global urban population only overtook the rural population in 2007. At that time both urban and rural populations were split nearly 50/50, with around 3.3 billion people apiece. Currently, the percentage of people living in urban areas has grown to over 55% and is expected to get […]
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The global investment in research and development (R&D) has tripled to $2.4 trillion since 2000. R&D spending is now targeting a wider global reach. In 1960, the U.S. made almost 70% of global R&D spending and this had fallen by 30% by 2020. R&D plays a vital role in a country’s economic growth and innovation,
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The last decade has seen several changes in the World’s richest billionaires list. The first one is the new faces at the top of the leaderboard that was never there before. But one of the most obvious changes is that the richest billionaires have accumulated a lot more wealth in recent years. Using Forbes’s annual
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