Reig E. (2010). Social and economic wellbeing in the Mediterranean basin: building an enlarged human development indicator. [S.l.] : Projet SUSTAINMED. 72 p. (SUSTAINMED Working Paper).
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http://sustainmed.iamm.fr/images/downloads/wp01_wellbeinginthemed20101209.pdf
Titre : | Social and economic wellbeing in the Mediterranean basin: building an enlarged human development indicator |
Auteurs : | E. Reig |
Type de document : | Rapport, Expertise, Working Paper |
Editeur : | Projet SUSTAINMED, 2010 |
Collection : | SUSTAINMED Working Paper |
Format : | 72 p. |
Langues : | Anglais |
Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Catégories principales 03 - POLITIQUE ET THEORIE ECONOMIQUE ; 3.3 - Politique et Situation EconomiquesThésaurus IAMM INDICATEUR DE DEVELOPPEMENT ; BIEN ETRE SOCIAL ; INDICATEUR COMPOSITE ; REGION MEDITERRANEENNE ; METHODE ; DEVELOPPEMENT SOCIOECONOMIQUE |
Résumé : | This Working Paper calculates a human wellbeing composite index for 42 countries, including the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC) of the SUSTAINMED Project. The paper aims to suggest an alternative to the shortcomings of well known measures of development (i.e. Gross Domestic Product per head and Human Development Index), by constructing a Wellbeing Composite Index (WCI) based on a different methodological approach and using quantitative data for seven selected socio-economic variables. To attain this goal, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used as an aggregation tool. The use of DEA avoids the frequent subjectivity involved in assigning weightings to each of the dimensions of wellbeing and ranks each individual country by its distance to a benchmark based on the observed behaviour of best-performing countries in the sample. DEA models are applied to data belonging to European, North Africa and Middle East Countries. The results show Northern European countries displaying the highest WCI levels, and highlight the distance that separates each of the Mediterranean Partner Countries from the benchmark levels established by the countries that record the best practices for each of the variables (i.e. wellbeing facets) being considered. |
Cote : | En ligne |
URL / DOI : | http://sustainmed.iamm.fr/images/downloads/wp01_wellbeinginthemed20101209.pdf |