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42 2. How Globalized are Individual Countries and Regions in this report. Relative comparisons both within and among countries can help identify areas to target for improving connectedness. • Benchmark Policy Enablers of Connectedness: Each country profile provides data on a set of policy metrics that may help countries deepen their global connectedness. Benchmarking scores on these measures can help identify policy initiatives that merit further study. An even wider range of policy measures are discussed in Chapter 5 of the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2011. • Understand Structural Enablers and Barriers to Connectedness: Some factors that influence connectedness are beyond a country’s direct control. A large landlocked country faces very different challenges in terms of fostering connectedness than a small country built around a port on a major shipping lane. Structural drivers and barriers, also listed in the country profiles, provide useful perspective to inform cross-country comparisons and can help guide policy customization. If, for example, being landlocked poses a major barrier to connectedness for a particular country, then specific remedies can be tailored to that constraint, including both obvious ones, such as connecting better to coastal neighbors, as well as less obvious ones, such as promoting exports that have sufficiently high value-to-weight ratios to merit transport by air, or even digital exports that can be transmitted over the Internet. In the complex and diverse world described in this report, recommending more specific policy initiatives without further fine-tuning to individual countries’ contexts is clearly inappropriate. Rather, policymakers are encouraged to use this report as a convenient and consistent cross-country reference tool as they work to craft policies that are well tailored to their national conditions and objectives. The country rankings and supporting data in the country profiles can also inform business strategy, as described in the conclusion of Chapter 1. Before turning to the country profiles, though, this report will proceed next to further examination of the changes in global levels and patterns of connectedness within which country-level and firm-level strategies must be crafted. Chapter 3 examines the changing depth of the world’s trade, capital, information, and people flows, and then Chapter 4 turns to how the big shift of economic activity to emerging economies is reshaping the breadth of global connectedness.
DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014 43 2. How Globalized Are Individual Countries and Regions – Notes 1 The World Bank’s income classifications can be found at http://data. worldbank.org/about/country-and-lending-groups. 2 While landlockedness was not statistically significant in the regression reported in this report, it was significant (p
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