We hit a snag in 2007-9\/\u00a0 Th economic crises contracted the globe.\u00a0 People drew in.\u00a0 But the world again is connecting the dots.\u00a0 One way to see this is to look at global indices: happiness, terrirism, carbon emissions, and obesity, for example.<\/p>\n
W-T-W Women and Finance focuses on women around the globe interconnecting through finance: in trade, the movement of money, information and people.\u00a0 Need to know includes need to know about your neighbor’s economy and well-being, whether you are an informed citizen, or someone in the finance commnity.\u00a0 Or both.<\/p>\n
The DHL Global COnnectedness Index shows globalization on the rebound.\u00a0 A latest small economic recovery shows restored faith in the upward march to a smaller world.<\/p>\n
The McKinsey Global Institute shows the world flow of goods, servics and finance more than 1 1\/2 times the level in 1990.<\/p>\n
Most of the recent rebound in globialization occurred in emerging countries.\u00a0 Yet advanced countries ike the Netherlands and Germany are also ranked high in thier breadth and depth of conectedness.<\/p>\n
Funny statistics show that we have room for growth.\u00a0 Onlly 5 % of phone calls are international.\u00a0 Immgratts only make up 3 percent of the world’s population.<\/p>\n
Boundaries are firm, however, and most people do not say, as DIogenes did in anciet Greece, “I am a citizen of the world.”\u00a0 But we are getting there.<\/p>\n
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