A fact from Trade globalization appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 February 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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A very nice, beginning article. Still somewhat in narrative outline form, not necessarily representing the broad range of perspectives on the topic. Thus, in my estimation, Class=C. Some possible aspects for future development:
Would be helpful to develop and include some graphs over time to illustrate the stated long-term trends.
Add a section on summarizing the variety of perspectives and debates on this topic.
One could take a longer- or shorter-term view of this topic. GDP has been formally measured only for a relatively short period of time. But international trade has gone on for centuries. How would one quantitatively estimate millennial trends in international trade?
What are the challenges in estimating international trade (transfer pricing, tax havens, faux reporting...)?
In an era of globalized production-chains, what does it mean for components to go from one country to the next, get sub-assembled, re-assembled, and then shipped back to the country of origin? How many times does one product and its components get measured?
