Global City Competitiveness Index

The Arashi and Kanjani Global City Competitiveness Index is a measurement created by Arashi and Kanjani which ranks cities of the member nations of the Alliance of Independent Nations based on five main criteria: business activity, human capital, information exchange, cultural experience, and political engagement. The measurement aims to rank the competitiveness of global cities according to their demonstrated ability to attract capital, businesses, talent and visitors. The index was first released in 2017.

Parameters
The five parameters are business activity (30%) which measures the city’s economic power, human capital (30%) which measures the city’s human resources strength, information exchange (15%) which measure’s the city’s economic integration relative to the country it is situated, cultural experience (15%) which measure’s the city’s cultural value relative to the region it is located and political engagement (10%) which measures the city’s political engagement in AIN through its AIN activity and contributions to the AIN budget.