Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Monday, February 01, 2010

Globalization Index

The Globalization Index, like other comparative surveys offers opportunities for creating exercises seeking correlation and maybe even causations for students.

For instance how do the statistics for globalization compare with those for transparency? How do they compare with those for economic freedom? wealth? human rights? human development? other comparative rankings?

The Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) Globalization Index measures the economic, social and political dimensions of globalization. The current analysis refers to the year 2007. Consequently, the developments triggered by the financial and economic crisis are not yet included.

Globalization in the economic, social and political fields has been on the rise since the 1970s, receiving a particular boost after the end of the Cold War.

Political and economic globalization advanced once again compared to the previous year.

In contrast, social globalization is stagnating - and has been since 2001.

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