New Mobility

GLOBAL INVESTOR 2.13 Contents — 05
New Mobility
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The New Mobility
Information technologies are reconfiguring the way we travel,
work and communicate. Giles Keating explores how the New
Mobility will impact economic growth.
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Migration: Good or bad?
Is international migration posing a problem, or rather a solution?
Ian Goldin separates fact from fiction, providing a deeper
understanding of a complex topic.
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Top shots on the move
Global Investor presents a collection of portraits featuring ten
top shots from around the world. Find out where they are
from, and where they are deployed. Each is unique, but what
is it that they all have in common?
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Keeping cities moving
According to Dario Hidalgo, as cities continue to expand,
the need for effective mass rapid transit becomes all the more
important. He explains why more roads aren’t the answer.
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So far, yet so near
With over a billion smartphone users, mobile technologies are
already transformative. But, says Uwe Neumann, the real boom
comes once people, processes, things and data are all linked.
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Innovation welcome in a USD 40 billion business
Remittances from migrants to their home countries have a
major economic impact. Christine Schmid and Javier Lodeiro
explain why and look at the role that mobile communication
technology plays in getting money to those who need it most.
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Moving ahead in Africa
Where 40% of primary school students drop out,
there’s a need for more accessible education in Africa.
But as Pedro Conceição reports, learning and earnings
aren’t always directly linked.
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(Un)equal opportunity
Earnings mobility is something that citizens of all the rich
countries value. Miles Corak examines the roles that socioeconomic
background and education play in that regard.
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Managing migration
National migration policies are a complex matrix where demographics
and economics intersect. Martina Lubyová explores
the topic of managing labor mobility in a globalized world.
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New mobility models needed
Urban streets are chronically congested, slowing commuters
and goods while choking residents with pollution.
Andrea Schnell and Thomas Rühl present some new solutions
to what has become a long-standing problem.
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How ideas spread
If there’s something worth sharing, Duncan Watts wants to
know about it. He’s made a career of studying how and why it
is that some ideas get passed up, passed along or “go viral.”
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The China travel surge
Tourism from China is booming – to such a degree that
China plans to build 70 new airports by 2015. Scott Booker
reports on the travel explosion that was worth USD 102 billion
last year.
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