Methodology

The primary goal of the SCO is to provide the international community with a set of indicators covering developing and emerging countries as broadly as possible, and characterizing each country’s ability to integrate into the global economy.

 

The information produced by the SCO is organized into three main data sets. The “National Attractiveness and Sustainability” block brings together a wide variety of indicators and measures of non-price competitiveness and economic sustainability. These indicators assess the production capacity, quality, and positioning within value chains of the countries studied, as well as the long-term sustainability of these economic systems in a world undergoing an energy transition. The “Price Competitiveness” block focuses on the price dimension of competition between countries and across economic sectors. It includes indicators of nominal effective exchange rates, real effective exchange rates, and internal exchange rates. The “Revealed Competitiveness” block directly measures countries’ export competitiveness in international markets, based on global export market shares. The indicators presented can therefore be considered the result of the determinants of competitiveness presented in the “National Attractiveness and Sustainability” and “Price Competitiveness” blocks.