The KOF Index of Globalisation is an

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of the degree of

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of 122 countries. It was conceived by

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at the Konjunkturforschungsstelle of

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, in Switzerland. It was first published in 2002, and covered the period from 1970 until that year. A new version of it was published in 2017 and 2018. The index is based on three principal criteria: economic, political and social. Unlike the Maastricht Globalisation Index, it does not take into account

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factors.

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