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That's the message from the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014.
To see how globalization is actually evolving, Steven Altman and I compile the biennial DHL Global Connectedness Index, which tracks international flows of trade, capital, information, and people.
3. P. Ghemawat and S.A. Altman, "DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014: Analyzing Global Flows and Their Power to Increase Prosperity," October 2014, www.dhl.com.
About half of all the international flows we track on the 2018 DHL Global Connectedness index take place between countries and just their top three origins and destinations, which are often neighboring countries.
Mandel, the president of South Mountain Economics, took the average number of connections per member in each of 275 areas and created a connectedness index ranging from 0 to 1.
These are the conclusions of the latest DHL Global Connectedness Index, which found that the Netherlands is the most globalised of 140 countries (see chart), just ahead of Singapore; landlocked Burundi is the least.
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An index of connectedness was measured for each mosaic, and was used as an indicator of crop-clustering effects due to crop-rotation organization in farms.
The co-authors also tested the model on other indices of connectedness, including hourly trips measured by phone data, commuting between U.S. counties, migration between U.S. cities, intercity telephone calls made by 10 million anonymous users in a European country, and the shipment of goods by any mode of transportation among U.S. states and major metropolitan areas.
For example, tourism in the Bahamas scores high on depth, because a lot of people travel there, but low on breadth, because most come from one country, the U.S. The index calculates the connectedness of each nation by combining depth and breadth.
The analysis revealed a specific pattern of land use where lowlands are being increasingly utilized by humans (percentage of agricultural land = 65.84%) characterized by physical connectedness (high values of Patch Cohesion Index) and relatively simple geometries (low values of fractal dimension index).
For the former, the network connectedness was evaluated by calculating the "gamma index of connectivity" and "alpha index of circuitry"; for the latter, the ratio of flood-control capacity to projected flood level was devised and calculated.
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