The evolving dynamics of global economic power in the post-crisis world: Revelations from a new Index of Government Economic Power

by Kaushik Basu, Supriyo De, Rangeet Ghosh and Shweta DEA Working Paper No. 4/2011 This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as simple and parsimonious a [...]