An Analysis of Dynamic Changes in Selected Areas of Sustainable Development of the European Union Countries

Bąk Iwona () and Cheba Katarzyna ()
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Bąk Iwona: Ph.D., Associate Professor, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin Department of Applied Mathematics in Economics Janickiego 31, 71-270 Szczecin, Poland
Cheba Katarzyna: Ph.D. West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin Department of Applied Mathematics in Economics Janickiego 31, 71-270 Szczecin, Poland

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2018, vol. 18, issue 1, 93-107

Abstract: The aim of the study is to determine the pace and directions of changes (understood as: improvement or deterioration) occurring in selected areas of sustainable development of EU Member States. The paper analyzes dynamics of changes in selected areas of sustainable development monitored on the basis of headline indicators published by Eurostat from 2008 to 2015. In the paper, three variants of reference points of synthetic measure of development were considered. On the basis of the obtained results, the countries in which the improvement in the sustainable development and its deterioration can be observed were identified. The results have confirmed the existence of significant developmental disparities between EU Member States in this field, but it should be noted that the obtained results depend on the methodological approach both to the selection of features and the adoption of a specific standardization formula, as well as the considered variants of reference points. The results obtained can be utilized in subsequent years to examine the directions of change observed both from the point of view of European Union as one organization, and the individual EU Member States.

Keywords: sustainable development; dynamic analysis; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.2478/foli-2018-0008

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