World trade very much facilitated the production of complex goods, such as automobiles and computers, because it allowed a very wide array of raw materials to be used in manufacturing. Figure 3. World trade base
This study contributes to the existing literature in several ways. First, it addresses a critical gap by examining the impact of institutional quality on the cost efficiency of social services provided by Italian municipalities, a topic with significant policy implications that has been explored in a...
And these companies have spurred much of the growth that we see. This surge has largely been in the climate tech sector, where the Nordics boast a remarkable 2.4 times overrepresentation compared with GDP.6,” McKinsey, September 1, 2022. But to flourish in an increasingly uncertain future,...
In the six countries we analyzed—the U.S., Germany, South Korea, Brazil, China, and India—combined mobile GDP (mGDP) contributes more than $1.2 trillion to overall GDP. (See Exhibit 4.) These six countries account for 47 percent of global GDP. To isolate the growth of mGDP from ov...
This contributes to generating the needed trust that prompts vulnerable people to take the risk of depositing in a bank account. As banking services spread in a country, their accessibility generates trust, which affects bank savings (Filipiak, 2016). Additionally, bank penetration can reduce the ...
This paper assesses the role shipping and logistics foreign direct investment (FDI) plays in developing country export performance, exemplified by the case of the large multinational corporation (MNC) Maersk’s investments in Vietnam. The paper aims to g
The Changing Structure of Inequality in India, 1993-2010: What Contributes and How Much?InequalityConsumptionFoodHealthEducationDurable GoodsIndiaWe use consumption expenditure data from the 1993-94 and 2009-10 rounds of NSS and decompose the overall inequality in total consumption expenditure by ...
In contrast, the world economic uncertainty has only a limited direct impact on the FIAIX, indicating the resilience of the Saudi financial sector to fluctuations in global uncertainty. In terms of economic growth, positive shocks have a greater impact than negative shocks due to the volatility ...
DHL Global Connectedness Index 2018 35 As Chapter 1 demonstrated, the world is still less con- nected than most people presume, even with globaliza- tion's rise to a new record level in 2017. Globalization is also far from complete in another sense: some parts of the world are much more...
Instagram’s Explore page is much less interactive and it doesn’t display captions or account names. The popularity of the ‘For You’ page is both a blessing and a curse. TikTok is all about trends, which brands can use to their advantage in an attempt to go viral. But, jus...