This paper has argued that there are problems with the measurement, weighting and normalisation rules used to construct the KFP index of globalisation, even if one accepts the list of variables that should be included in the index. Alternative measurement, weighting and normalisation rules have been proposed, and it is shown that re-calculating country rankings according to these alternative rules leads to many countries changing places in the rankings, some quite significantly. These same criticisms made here of the KFP index also apply in principle to other indices used to rank countries, such as the Human Development Index, and so a possible future project would be to apply the techniques developed in this paper to recalculate other indices.
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