When belgium sneezes, the world catches a cold

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When Belgium sneezes, the world catches a cold

As the eurozone continues to wobble, new analysis of countries' economic interconnectedness finds that some of the countries with the greatest potential to cause a global crash have surprisingly small gross domestic production.

Using data from Bureau Van Dijk - the company information and business intelligence provider - to assess the reach and size of different countries' economies, and applying the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model, physicists from universities in Greece, Switzerland and Israel have identified the twelve countries with greatest power to spread a crisis globally.

The research published today, Thursday 25 November 2010, in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society), groups Belgium and Luxembourg alongside more obviously impactful economies such as the USA in the top twelve.

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Lees verder: http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-belgium-world-cold.html

Bron: Physorg

Wetenschappelijk artikel: http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/12/11/113043/fulltext

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groups Belgium and Luxembourg alongside more obviously impactful economies such as the USA in the top twelve.

Allez, dan zijn we dus bijzonder goed bezig om niet alleen Belgie, maar de wereld in een crisis te storten.

shimmy

Overigens staat volgens dit onderzoek ook Nederland in het lijstje van twaalf snelste verspreiders.

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