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Make the Most of Cultural Diversity

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Leaders for many years have talked about the importance of taking greater advantage of their nation’s, region’s, and community’s diversity: diversity owing to culture; diversity owing to gender; diversity owing to people’s life choices; diversity owing to immigration. The vast majority of leaders, however, have not taken full account of diversity’s growing importance.

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Magnani, M. (2014). Make the Most of Cultural Diversity. In: Creating Economic Growth. Palgrave Advances in Regional and Urban Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137427052_6

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