Rating Country Performance by Frontier Analysis

Sten Thore and Ruzanna Tarverdyan

Chapter 2 in Diagnostics for a Globalized World, 2015, pp 23-33 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Frontier analysis is a recent development in economics that explicitly recognizes that some decision makers use sub-optimal solutions. When applied to the field of national economic and social policy, the purpose of frontier analysis is to identify those nations that effectively convert policy parameters into maximal goal achievements. These countries are said to be located at the frontier. Ineffective or sub-effective countries are located away from (or below) the frontier…

Keywords: Globalization; Performance Evaluation; Data Envelopment Analysis; DEA; Millennium Development Goals; MDGs; Sustainable Development; United Nations; Rio+20; Post-2015 Agenda; Geneva Consensus; Washington Consensus; Beyond GDP; Jan Tinbergen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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