An index aggregation approach to comparing the overall performance of emerging and developed countries

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-39

  Chen, Ye ^a   Su, Xin ^b   Hipel, Keith W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation of cardinal and ordinal information; BRICSAM countries; Data envelopment analysis; G7; Index aggregation

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; G-7 COUNTRY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; INDEX METHOD;

EID: 56949100820     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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