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Jan 3, 2013

STUDY * GLOBALIZATION

* Germany - Deutsche Post DHL publishes its second "global index of globalization" 

Bonn,Germany -Logistics Magazine (France), by Luke Battais -14 Dec 2012: -- A tool for the internatinal business, the"global connectedness Index" was published by Deutsche Post DHL. This large study led by Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor at the IESE business school in Barcelona, ranks 140 countries according to their "degree of globalization" ... This rate study is measured by two criteria: the depth of international trade and its magnitude. The depth is expressed as a percentage of international activity in relation to GDP, the size is more or less valued by the number of countries with which these exchanges take place. The rate of globalization that produces the rank of a country in the overall result of a calculation applying these concepts to four indicators considered "pillars" of the evaluation: the level of trade of goods and service, rate of foreign investment, the volume of trade information (Internet exchanges, many international calls) and finally flows of people (migration, tourism, international students)... This classification strange place the Netherlands in number 1, followed by Singapore, Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland, Great Britain... The last ranked 140th, is Botswana... What does such a classification if to note that the "level of globalization is lower" than before the crisis? For a group like Deutsche Post DHL, it comes first, and this is his main interest, a tool to detect, locate and characterize a priori breaks in trends in world trade characterized by a "displacement of economic centers of gravity." Europe is seen as the study region in the world better connected, while the sub-Saharan region of Africa is the one that showed the strongest momentum in the development of its interconnection with the rest of the world between 2010 and 2011...

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