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Globalization and Latin America’s ’Digital Gap’: The Andean Community of Nations (CAN)
Abstract
The Andean Community of Nations (CAN) and others countries in Latin America (LA) as any less developed countries (LDCs), are located by inception, on the wrong side of the ‘digital gap’. Therefore, these countries confront an enormous challenge from the network revolution which is unfolding. Globalization represents a new paradigm composed of integrated and interdependent economies. The Globalization Index (GI) determines the rank of the countries within the model. This Index is composed of several variables in which economic integration, and technology, among others, plays a very important role in countries’ classifications. Currently a diminishing trend of FDIs is preponderant in the region and this affects the knowledge-based society, and also the efforts to make these countries members of the new paradigm Globalization.
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