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In response to increasing demand for better measures to analyse the trends of globalisation, the OECD took the initiative to draw up a conceptual and methodological framework for gathering quantitative information and constructing indicators. This work has led to the present Handbook on Economic Globalisation Indicators. It is the outcome of co-operation among experts from the OECD Secretariat, member countries and international organisations.

Improving the understanding of the impacts of globalisation requires quantitative work in at least three areas: measurement of its magnitude and intensity, its economic impact, and lastly its links with structural adjustment policies. The Handbook covers only the first area, for which a set of indicators is proposed, essentially in the form of ratios derived from basic statistics measuring the magnitude and intensity of the process of globalisation in its different dimensions.