News / Global trade still flowing nicely, but international investment is sticky

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Despite the rise of trade conflicts and xenophobic populism around the planet, globalisation is not in retreat, according to Global Connectedness Index (GCI) published by DHL.

Findings from the integrator’s Resilience360 subsidiary paint a more worrying picture of international trade, however. 

The GCI, an annual barometer of international flows of goods, capital, information and people that DHL presented on December 4, shows a slight overall dip for 2018. 

But it was not trade that retreated, nor cross-border movement of people. The only segment that suffered a ...