Utilization and comparison of multi attribute decision techniques to rank countries upon human development rate

International Research Journal of Finance and Economics

Volumn 60, Issue , 2010, Pages 175-188

  Soltanpanah, Herish ^a   Farughi, Hiva ^b   Golabi, Mahmood ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KURDISTAN   (Iran)

^c NONE

Author keywords

AHP; Entropy; HDI; Human development; Numerical taxonomy; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651456309     PISSN: 14502887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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