Today, cross-border trade in services accounts for 20 per cent of world trade. One indicator of the growing economic integration between different countries is that world trade is expanding faster than global output measured by GDP (slide 2). This has been the case without any interruption since the Second World War. Compared to other industrial countries, the Danish economy has enjoyed double globalisation gains.
I should note, here, that it is not necessary, in gaining acceptance of rules, for every single player to be a winner always. The sporting analogy may be helpful: all that is required is for the players to agree to abide by a set of rules.