Digital Connectivity: The Case of ASEAN–India and Vietnam–India
摘要
According to the World Bank (2019), an implied meaning of connectivity associates it with a network, in which nodes interconnect with each other directly or through other nodes. A node can be any spatial entity, like a person, city, or country. Connectivity is therefore a measure of how well any node connects to all the other nodes in the network. The hard dimension relates to the physical infrastructure, while the soft dimension includes the skills, knowledge, and other comparative advantages of a node. The World Economic Forum has released the Global Competitiveness Report 2019, and infrastructure is assessed as the second pillar of the 12 pillars in the framework of the global competitiveness index 4.0 (Schwab 2019). Currently, with the rapid development of regional economic activities, trade and investment between Vietnam and India, cross-border infrastructure connectivity has become a crucial building block of regional economic integration in the existing era of globalization.