Big Data Analysis on Global Community Formation and Isolation: Sustainability and Flow of Commodities, Money, and Humans
by Yuichi Ikeda (Editor), Hiroshi Iyetomi (Editor), Takayuki Mizuno (Editor)

About the Author
Yuichi Ikeda, Kyoto University

Hiroshi Iyetomi, Niigata University

Takayuki Mizuno, National Institute of Informatics

About this Book
In this book, the authors analyze big data on global interdependence caused by the flows of commodities, money, and people, using a network science approach to obtain differing views of globalization and to clarify the facts on isolation of communities.

Globalization reduces international economic inequality, i.e., it allows emerging countries to catch up while it increases relative poverty in some advanced countries. How should this trade-off between international and domestic inequalities be resolved? At the same time, the reduction of biocultural diversity caused by globalization needs to be avoided. What kind of change is required in local communities to conserve biocultural diversity?

On the issue of commodity flow, research results of the supply-chain network, isolation in industry, and resource flows and stocks are presented in this book. For monetary flow, ownership networks, value-added networks, and profit shifting were studied; and regarding the flow of people, linkage of ethnic groups, immigrant assimilation, and refugees were examined. Based on the resulting view of globalization and isolation, the development of the isolation index using machine learning is discussed. Finally, recommendations for evidence-based policymaking in the United Nations are considered.

Brief Contents
Global Production and Domestic Divides
Part I. Commodity Flow
    Is Firm-Level International Trade More Pronounced at the Inter-industry or Intra-industry Level?
    Multilayer Network Approach to Dynamics of Japanese Interfirm Transaction Relations
    Supplier-Customer Network of Kyoto’s Traditional Craft Industry
    Resource Flows and Stocks in the Global Economy
Part II. Monetary Flow
    Who Possesses Whom in Terms of the Global Ownership Network
    Stock Ownership Structure in Japan
    Regional and Sectoral Change of Global Value-Added Network Around the 2009 Economic Crisis
    International Tax Avoidance Investigated from A Network Science Perspective
Part III. Human Flow
    Detecting Ethnic Linkages in Economic Networks Using Machine Learning
    Immigrant Integration in Asia
    Data Envelopment Analysis on the Fulfillment of Right to Health for Syrian Refugees in Turkey
    Design of Social Isolation Index
Part IV. Policy Process
    Making Policy Recommendations in International Organizations
    Beyond “Evidence-Based” Policymaking

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 1st ed. 2021 edition (June 13, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Pages ‏ : ‎ 523
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9811549435
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9811549434

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