English to Portuguese Bus/Financial Economics

Virtually all the statistical data on production, trade, investment and the like are aggregated into national ‘boxes’. Indeed, the word ‘statistics’ originally denoted facts collected about the ‘state’. However, such a level of statistical aggregation is less and less useful in light of the changes occurring in the organization of economic activity. Unfortunately, we have to rely heavily on national-level data to explore the changing maps of production, trade and investment. But, because national boundaries no longer ‘contain’ production processes in the way they once did, we need to find ways of getting both below and above the national scale – to break out of the constraints of the ‘national boxes’ – in order to understand what is really going on in the world.
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quadros nacionais?
Às vezes, tenho a impressão de que são os bancos de dados nacionais. Qual é a sua opinião?