Measuring Sustainable Development Using an Extended Hellwig Method: A Case Study of Education

Ewa Roszkowska () and Marzena Filipowicz-Chomko ()
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Ewa Roszkowska: University of Bialystok
Marzena Filipowicz-Chomko: Bialystok University of Technology

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2021, vol. 153, issue 1, No 12, 299-322

Abstract: Abstract Benchmarking the analysis of countries' performance in terms of sustainable development helps to understand the success factors of countries that over perform and to target priority issues of others with lower performance. However, assessing sustainable development comes with methodological challenges, including indicator standardization, aggregation and weighting. Our study significantly contributes to the measure of sustainable development by providing a new approach based on an extended Hellwig method. After describing the main limitations of existing methodologies, this paper's aim is twofold. First, we show that the proposed analytical framework allows for comparing the sustainable performance of EU countries on the national level. The extended Hellwig method takes into consideration EU targets and/or national targets in building patterns of development. Second, this framework is tested as a part of the evaluation of the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy in the education area. The results obtained using the extended Hellwig method were compared with those obtained by means of the Education Index, TOPSIS and Ward technique. Our analysis showed the significant disparities in the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy recommendations in the education area in 2015.

Keywords: Sustainable development; Europe 2020 strategy; Education; Hellwig method; Ward method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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