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How globally connected is S'pore?

Correcting misperceptions about the depth of globalisation is important because greater depth is associated with faster economic growth.

Published Wed, Oct 28, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Globalisation

A 2014 Time magazine article claimed that compared to Singapore, "no other place on earth has so engineered itself to prosper from globalisation - and succeeded at it". The DHL Global Connectedness Index, which we first released in 2011 and have since updated regularly, confirms the Lion City to be a leader on several aspects of globalisation, but also identifies gaps in Singapore's globality.

We measure globalisation on the DHL Global Connectedness Index based on hard data tracking countries' international…

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