We hit a snag in 2007-9/  Th economic crises contracted the globe.  People drew in.  But the world again is connecting the dots.  One way to see this is to look at global indices: happiness, terrirism, carbon emissions, and obesity, for example.

W-T-W Women and Finance focuses on women around the globe interconnecting through finance: in trade, the movement of money, information and people.  Need to know includes need to know about your neighbor’s economy and well-being, whether you are an informed citizen, or someone in the finance commnity.  Or both.

The DHL Global COnnectedness Index shows globalization on the rebound.  A latest small economic recovery shows restored faith in the upward march to a smaller world.

The McKinsey Global Institute shows the world flow of goods, servics and finance more than 1 1/2 times the level in 1990.

Most of the recent rebound in globialization occurred in emerging countries.  Yet advanced countries ike the Netherlands and Germany are also ranked high in thier breadth and depth of conectedness.

Funny statistics show that we have room for growth.  Onlly 5 % of phone calls are international.  Immgratts only make up 3 percent of the world’s population.

Boundaries are firm, however, and most people do not say, as DIogenes did in anciet Greece, “I am a citizen of the world.”  But we are getting there.