I was given one of our client’s internal staff magazines today and was fascinated by an article featuring the work of world mapper. Firstly, here is the world with no distotion to it
While I recommend for everyone to go and have a look, I was particularly interested in two maps. Firstly, my own role of working in the financial services industry and the export strength in Europe:
Interesting how little the US export in terms of financial services.
Secondly a sad contrast to the wealth generated by financial services. The next graph looks at the first Millennium Development Goal which is to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who live on the equivalent of US$1 a day, or less.
The largest population living on US$1 a day is in Southern Asia, most of whom live in India – one of the big outsourcing hubs for european financial services…
