# Data from the 2019 update of the DHL Global Connectedness Index (GCI), co-authored by Professor Steven A. Altman and Research Scholar Phillip Bastian, is spotlighted

1 Faculty News January 11, 2020 ![Il Foglio logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/IL%20Fogio.jpg?itok=z9z8sqro)>

Excerpt from [Il Foglio Quotidiano](https://www.pressreader.com/italy/il-foglio-quotidiano/20200111/281479278354207) -- "The promise of Donald Trump to raise barriers to trade with China hits of duties has created a feeling of economic insecurity over the course of 2019, but despite this, as documented by a study published in mid-December by DHL and the NYU Stern School of Business, international flows of capital and trade have suffered only a slight decline and 'the world is now more connected than in almost all other moments of history, with no signs of a broad reversal of the trend of globalisation.'"

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