Sustainable Development Goals Analysis with Ordered Weighted Average Operators

Betzabe Ruiz-Morales, Irma Cristina Espitia-Moreno, Victor G. Alfaro-Garcia and Ernesto Leon-Castro
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Betzabe Ruiz-Morales: Faculty of Accounting and Administrative Sciences, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Gral. Francisco J. Múgica S/N, Felícitas del Río, Morelia 58030, Mexico
Irma Cristina Espitia-Moreno: Faculty of Accounting and Administrative Sciences, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Gral. Francisco J. Múgica S/N, Felícitas del Río, Morelia 58030, Mexico
Victor G. Alfaro-Garcia: Faculty of Accounting and Administrative Sciences, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Gral. Francisco J. Múgica S/N, Felícitas del Río, Morelia 58030, Mexico
Ernesto Leon-Castro: Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Av. Alonso de Ribera 2850, Concepción 4090541, Chile

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-27

Abstract: The present research proposes a new method to analyze the sustainable development goals (SDGs) index using ordered weighted average (OWA) operators. To develop this method, five experts evaluated and designated the relative importance of each of the 17 SDGs defined by the United Nations (UN), and with the use of the OWA and prioritized OWA (POWA) operators, rankings were generated. With the results, it is possible to visualize that the ranking of countries can change depending on the weights related to each SDG because the OWA and POWA operator methods can capture the uncertainty of the phenomenon.

Keywords: sustainable development goals; OWA operator; uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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