DHL: The State of Globalization Around the World

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Surprise, surprise.  DHL has released its second edition of the DHL Global Connectedness Index (GCI), a comprehensive analysis of the state of globalization around the world.

The report draws on over one million data points from 2005 to 2011, concluding that the world today is less globally connected than it was in 2007.

Learn more here.

Key finding:

Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2007, however, global connectedness has been faltering and has even suffered reversals, according to the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012.  This is an alarming finding given the huge gains that global connectedness has brought to the world's citizens.

 GCI Study (immediately download PDF file; size 17.4 MB)