Surname [1]Students NameProfessors NameEconomics25 January 2017Connectedness of Netherlands and Venezuela.Researchers have indicated a general decline in connectedness since 2007. The 2014 DHLConnectedness Index(DCI) analyzed the connectedness of 140 countries. This indicates a moreaccurate study as 99% of the worlds GDP and 95% of the global population was covered(Ghemwat and Altman). However, this paper will seek to examine to compare the connectednessindex of Netherlands and Venezuela in 2012. Specifically, much emphasize will be put on theirconnectedness in regards to trade, capital, information, and people. Furthermore, it is importantto analyse the connectedness growth, 2007, being our base year.Basically, the Connectedness Index is a measure of globalization (Lowen). As defined by theDHL report, global connectedness is the breadth and width of a countrys integration with therest of the world as manifested by its participation in international flows of products andservices, capital, information, and people. (Ghemawat) The DCI compares the distribution of acountrys international flows with the global distribution of the same flow, though, in theopposite distribution as a way measuring breadth. Furthermore, the index uses directionality as ameasure of globalization. However, depth and breadth are the most preferred metrics ofconnectedness (Ghemwat and Altman).Surname [2]The DCI ranks countries connectedness in a descending o ...
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