Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Miscellaneous frontmatter
- List of Abbreviations
- Glossary of Key Terms
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Should the Musicians Continue to Play?
- 2 Background
- 3 Methods
- 4 Cross-national Results: Beyond the Pro-globalist Development Approach of the European Commission
- 5 Final Cross-national Results for the Combined Development Indicator
- 6 A Time Series Perspective on Globalization, Growth and Inequality
- 7 Conclusions
- Appendices
- References
- Index of Persons and Authorships
- Index of Subjects and Countries
3 - Methods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Miscellaneous frontmatter
- List of Abbreviations
- Glossary of Key Terms
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Should the Musicians Continue to Play?
- 2 Background
- 3 Methods
- 4 Cross-national Results: Beyond the Pro-globalist Development Approach of the European Commission
- 5 Final Cross-national Results for the Combined Development Indicator
- 6 A Time Series Perspective on Globalization, Growth and Inequality
- 7 Conclusions
- Appendices
- References
- Index of Persons and Authorships
- Index of Subjects and Countries
Summary
Introduction
In this chapter we present a review of the research methodology and discuss its strengths and limitations.
The interest in and the amount of research on the relationships between subprocesses of development and their predictors have been increasing in recent years due to increased availability of secondary data and improvements of the methodology. The growing interest is a result of the rapid development of international relations and the speed at which the recent wave of openness is proceeding. The theoretical literature on each aspect of development is vast but the empirical evidence on the nature and causal relationship between the different interrelated factors of interest remains poorly investigated. Thus, there is an urgent need for further research and methodological development at different levels and on different aspects of development to allow to shed light on these issues and to improve our understanding of the problems, policies and their outcomes.
Globalization and its impacts on inequality and poverty have been intensively studied in recent years. Concerning measurement of globalization, Heshmati (2006a, 2006b) introduces two composite indices of globalization. The first index is based on the A. T. Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine report (2002) and the second is obtained from a principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalization and show how globalization has developed over time for different countries. The indices are composed of four components: economic integration, personal contact, technology and political engagement, each generated from a number of indicators.
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- Globalization, the Human Condition and Sustainable Development in the Twenty-First CenturyCross-National Perspectives and European Implications, pp. 57 - 78Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2012