The globalization report appears regularly and sets an
authoritative standard for the comprehensive analysis
of current globalization issues and global economic
development. The 2016 globalization report comes in two
parts. Building on the previous report, the first part focuses
on the question of to what extent different countries have
benefited from globalization in the past and to which
degree this is possible in the future. The second part
analyses the export performance and the development of
the international competitiveness of 42 globally important
economies.
The first part of the investigation creates a globalization
index which takes into account the economic, political and
social aspects of globalization. Subsequently, the index data
are used, together with a regression analysis, to quantify and
compare the impacts on growth caused by globalization in
the various countries. Then the country is identified which
has achieved the most growth as a result of globalization
