Ranking the European Union Countries in terms of Human Development by Using TOPSIS and EDAS and Combining these Rankings with the Borda Count Method
Künye
Yavrucu, Erencan ve Özdemir, Mehmet Hakan (2022). Ranking the European Union Countries in terms of human development by using TOPSIS and EDAS and combining these rankings with the borda count method. Current Research in Social, Human and Administrative Sciences - March 2022 içersinde 145-160.Özet
There are conventional measures such as income per capita and the
rate of economic growth to determine the economic development of a
country. Nonetheless, income per capita turned out to be a poor indicator
for human development successes over time. It is often true that in countries
with high income per capita people live longer and get better education.
However, when only income per capita is taken as indicator, inter-country
comparisons can sometimes be problematic because some countries with
high income per capita have low levels of human development or vice versa
(UNDP, 2015). In 1990, the Human Development Report Office (HDRO)
of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published
the first annual Human Development Report (HDR) in which the
Human Development Index (HDI) was launched as an alternative to the
aforementioned conventional measures (Stanton, 2007; UNDP 2015).
In these reports, the necessity of putting human in the center of national
and global development policies is emphasized. It is aimed to attract the
attention of the international community in order to increase the quality
of life of human beings. Moreover, it is emphasized that it is important
to prepare development plans by governments, non-governmental
organizations, academic circles and media organizations, especially in
recent years. Comparing the development levels of countries, attention is
drawn to the concept of human development.
