Noncompensatory/nonlinear composite indicators for ranking countries: a defensible setting
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Non-Compensatory Composite Indicators for Ranking Countries: A Defensible Setting
Composite indicators for ranking countries are more and more popular in a variety of economic and policy domains such as industrial competitiveness, sustainable development, globalisation and innovation. As a consequence, improvements in the way these indicators are constructed and used seem to be a very important research issue from both the theoretical and operational points of view. This pap...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Economics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0003-6846,1466-4283
DOI: 10.1080/00036840601019364