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Impact beyond Academia

The Elite Quality Index (EQx) is a comparative, international measurement of Elites.

EQx is a political economy index that measures the ability of the elite business models in a country – on aggregate – to create value, rather than to extract value.

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2023 -The European Commission has included the Elite Quality Index in their “Composite Indicators & Scoreboards Explorer” just three years after its launch.

6 December 2022, Project Syndicate, "Fortunately, a new study by Tomas Casas i Klett and Guido Cozzi from the University of St. Gallen provides a useful conceptual framework for understanding the Chinese economic model."
Zhang Jun, Dean of the School of Economics at Fudan University, Director of the China Center for Economic Studies

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