There is broad agreement that the world economy is becoming more deeply integrated and interdependent along multiple dimensions: economic, cultural and political. While one might expect cultural or political integration to be difficult to measure with precision, global economic integration has also proven resistant to detailed quantification and empirical characterization. We have a strong sense of profound changes in the world economy, and see signs everywhere, but cannot fully describe the new patterns and structures that are taking shape, not least because the official statistics at our easy disposal were created for other purposes and in simpler times. IPC researchers have helped to develop data collection frameworks that are being tested in their own research and by international a national statistical agencies.
related links
The General Social Survey module on globalization
Business Function Surveys
The 2011 National Organizations Survey
Eurostat International Sourcing Survey
Statistics Canada’s Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy
Eurostat Global Value Chains Survey (check back soon)
Intermediate goods trade (check back soon)
Services offshoring data gaps. (Download pdf). Work with International agencies to develop better globalization metrics.
OECD
OECD online bookshop
World Bank
International Labor Organization
WTO and UN Statistics Divisio
USAID
UNCTAD (check back soon)
UNIDO
APEC
Industry Canada