Globalization of nations


Indexes

Variable Measurement Era SPSS code N Source
Globalization Index of:
1) Political engagement (number of memberships in international organizations, foreign embassies, and U.N. Security Council missions),
2) Technology (number of internet users, internet hosts, and secure servers),
3) Personal contact (international travel and tourism, telephone traffic and cross-border transfers),
4) Economic integration (trade, foreign direct investment and portfolio capital flows, and income payments and receipts)		 2001 GlobalizationIndex1_01 50 Kearney 2003
2006 GlobalizationIndex1_06 60 Kearney 2006
Globalization

KOF index consisting of:
1) Economic globalization
2) Social globalization
3) Political globalization

 

2010 GlobalizationIndex2_2010 180 Dreher 2010

Aspects

Variable Measurement Era SPSS code N Source
Economic globalization

Index of:
1) Actual flows: a) trade b) foreign direct investment flows, c) foreign direct investment flows, d) portfolio investment, e) income payments ti foreign nationals (all in % GDP)
2) Restrictions: a) hidden import barriers, b) mean tarif rate, c) taxeson international trade, d) capital account restrictions

2010 GlobalizationEconomic_2010 180 Dreher 2010
Social globalization

Index of:
1) Personal contacts: a) telephone trafic, b) transfers (in % GDP), c) international tourism, d) foreign population (% population), e) international letter (per capita)
2) Information flows; a) Internet users (per 10000, b) televisions (per 1000), c) trade in newspapers (% GDP)
3) Cultural proximity: number of McDonalds restaurants 9per capita), b) number of Ikea shops (per capita), c) trade in books (in % GDP)

 

2010 GlobalizationSocial_2010 180 Dreher2010
Political globalization

Index of:
1) Embassies in country
2) Membership of international organizations
3) Participation in UN Security council missions
4) International treaties

2010 GlobalizationPolitical_2010 180 Dreher 2010

Related variables:

Related topics:
Migration
Wealth
World system position

 Related themes:
Modernity

States of Nations is an inventory of country characteristics. It is part of the World Database of Happiness

Keywords added: Cross-national, Geography, Global, International