"By using the weighted figures, he identified a spot within the Earth as a figurative center of economic activity. Then this point was projected onto Earth's surface. IN 1980 economic gravity was centered in the Atlantic Ocean, 900 miles west of Morocco. By 2008, the centr had moved nearly 3,000 miles to a spot south of Izmir, Turkey. By 2050, the study projects, the center will be in rural China, 400 miles east of Katmandu."
The Global Economy's Shifting Centre of Gravity
by Danny Quah
http://econ.lse.ac.uk/~dquah/p/GE_Shifting_CG-DQ.pdf
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