Rethinking globalization: a modified globalization index

✍ Scribed by Pim Martens; Daniel Zywietz

• Book ID: 102352418
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 126 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0954-1748
• DOI: 10.1002/jid.1223

✦ Synopsis

This paper discusses conceptual and operational issues involved in measuring globalization. We propose a modified index for measuring globalization. The suggested index is based upon the A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index, but is improved both conceptually and operationally. We used data for 117 countries from a variety of resources to test the robustness of the suggested index. Furthermore, the results are compared with two recent globalization indices (the A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index and the World Markets Research Centre G-Index). The new index is used to delineate the various countries according to their level of globalization.