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				<dc:creator>Christos Cabolis</dc:creator>
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				<title>Rethinking Europe’s capital markets strategy: Lessons from Sweden’s model</title>
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				<title>China’s primacy challenge: Government security imperatives override business logic</title>
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				<dc:creator>Simon J. Evenett</dc:creator>
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				<title>South Korea’s innovations aren&#8217;t translating into higher levels of competitiveness: Lessons for other economies</title>
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				<title>In 2026, what matters to luxury brands is not what will happen, it’s how they adapt</title>
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				<dc:creator>Stéphane J. G. Girod</dc:creator>
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				<dc:creator>Nele Dael, Alyson Meister</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>How do national strategies interact with industry dynamics? Four different paths to digital competitiveness </title>
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				<dc:creator>Fabian Grimm </dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>The return of industrial policy, and what it means for global business</title>
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				<dc:creator>Simon J. Evenett, Fernando Martín Espejo</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>How to fight high US tariffs with strategic navigation</title>
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				<dc:creator>Carlos Cordon</dc:creator>
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				<title>The new leadership imperative: When purpose becomes performance</title>
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				<dc:creator>Poman Lo</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>The age of power parity: Compete through resilience, not reliance</title>
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				<dc:creator>David Bach</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>LuxExperience: Rewriting the playbook for luxury e-commerce</title>
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				<dc:creator>Stéphane J. G. Girod, Jana M. Arden</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Tariffs and transformation: what’s next for Swiss watchmaking?</title>
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				<dc:creator>Stéphane J. G. Girod</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>World Competitiveness Ranking 2025</title>
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				<dc:creator>Jay Clark</dc:creator>
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				<dc:creator>Jean-François Manzoni</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Europe’s Strategic Compass: Time to act, not react</title>
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				<dc:creator>David Bach</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>What open-source models can teach us about global trade</title>
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				<dc:creator>Richard Baldwin, Michael Yaziji</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>How trade tensions are transforming the rules of competitiveness</title>
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				<dc:creator>Fabian Grimm </dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>AI maturity in the automotive industry: lessons from the most successful firms </title>
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				<dc:creator>Tomoko Yokoi, Michael R. Wade</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>The end of corporate passivity: Why business leaders must shape geopolitics, not just react to it</title>
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				<dc:creator>Arturo Bris</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Trump and Musk have parted ways, but they weren’t wrong to go gung-ho over government efficiency</title>
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				<dc:creator>Arturo Bris</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>The great trade hack: how Trump’s tariffs are rewriting the rules for global business </title>
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				<dc:creator>Richard Baldwin</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Luxury E-Commerce is dead: Here is what might come next</title>
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				<dc:creator>Stéphane J. G. Girod, David Branch</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Israel shows the way to build government efficiency over time</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
				<dc:creator>Arturo Bris</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2021 08:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Economic resilience and a private-public health partnership have given Israel the competitive edge in vaccination roll-out....]]></description>
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				<title>Japan must end insularity to compete on a global scale</title>
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				<dc:creator>Kazuo Ichijo</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 07:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>How global connections can brighten Europe&#8217;s future</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[Competitiveness]]></category>
				<dc:creator>Steven A. Altman, Niccolò Pisani</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Phil’s Book club: The Value of Everything</title>
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				<dc:creator>Philip Rosenzweig, Arturo Bris</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>Three things you need to do to play to win in Asia</title>
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				<dc:creator>Mark J. Greeven, Patrick Reinmoeller</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 06:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>‘The data monetization trend calls for a common framework, but we need to prioritize questions of trust’</title>
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				<dc:creator>Arturo Bris</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 07:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 06:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>David Bach, Richard Baldwin, Simon J. Evenett</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<title>When trade walls rise: Lessons from Finnish companies on navigating market collapse </title>
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				<dc:creator>Christian Stutz</dc:creator>
				<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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