Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar , as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux'.
Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.509, SAGE
