A benefit-of-the-doubt model with reverse indicators

Färe, Rolf; Karagiannis, Giannis; Hasannasab, Maryam; Margaritis, Dimitris

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2019.02.009

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“…This work is an extension of a previous one made in [14] by increasing the time span under analysis, including now data from 2018. To aggregate the different sub-indicators into the CI, a variant of the Benefit of the Doubt (BoD) model is used, as proposed by Färe et al in [15]. This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 presents a literature review on the construction of the composite indicator and the variant of Benefit of the Doubt model proposed by Fare et al [15].…”

Section: The Adoption Of the United Nations' Sustainablementioning

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“…To aggregate the different sub-indicators into the CI, a variant of the Benefit of the Doubt (BoD) model is used, as proposed by Färe et al in [15]. This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 presents a literature review on the construction of the composite indicator and the variant of Benefit of the Doubt model proposed by Fare et al [15]. Section 3 describes the sub-indicators selected to compose the CI.…”

Section: The Adoption Of the United Nations' Sustainablementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Benefit of the Doubt (BoD) model, initially proposed by Cherchye et al [16] is one of the currently widely used DEA models for constructing CI [15]. This model is equivalent to the original DEA input-oriented model, with all sub-indicators considered as outputs and a single dummy input equal to one for all countries.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are many sub-indicators that fall in this category, for example, emission of a pollutant, traffic accidents, crime rate, among others. These sub-indicators need to be transformed before being incorporated in the conventional BoD model and treated as the forward sub-indicators [15].…”

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The transport sector plays a fundamental role in the European Union economy and its efficiency is fundamental to strengthen the region's environmental and economic performance. Unfortunately, the sector still remains heavily dependent on oil resources and is responsible for a large part of the air pollution. The European Union has been promoting various initiatives towards sustainable transport development by setting targets in the sector such as the ones proposed in the 2011 White Paper on transport. Under this context, this study aims at evaluating the environmental performance of the transport sector in 28 European Union countries, from 2015 to 2018, towards the policy agenda established in the strategic documents. The assessment of the transport environmental performance is made through the aggregation of seven sub-indicators into a composite indicator using a Data Envelopment Analysis technique. A variant of the Benefit of the Doubt model is used to determine the weights to aggregate the sub-indicators. The results obtained indicate that the European Union countries have been improving their transport environmental performance in the last two years of the time span under analysis, i.e., 2017 and 2018. Regarding the inefficient countries, results suggest they should improve the transport sustainability mainly by drastically reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-based propulsion, increasing the share of freight transport using rail and inland waterways and also the share of transport energy from renewable sources.

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Section: The Adoption Of the United Nations' Sustainablementioning

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Section: The Adoption Of the United Nations' Sustainablementioning

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“…Some of these techniques are presented and compared in [ 18 ]. After the data transformation, the transformed undesirable sub-indicators are included in the conventional BoD model and treated as the desirable sub-indicators [ 20 ].…”

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Environmental Performance Assessment of the Transport Sector in the European Union

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The European Union (EU) has been promoting diverse initiatives towards sustainable development and environment protection. One of these initiatives is the reduction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 60% below their 1990 level, by 2050. As the transport sector is responsible for more than 22% of those emissions some strategies need to be taken towards a more sustainable mobility, as the ones proposed in 2011 White Paper on transport. Under this context, this study aims to evaluate the environmental performance of the transport sector in the 28 EU countries towards these goals, from 2015 to 2017. The transport environmental performance is measured through the composite indicator derived from the Benefit of the Doubt (BoD) model. The country transport environmental performance is assessed through the aggregation of multiple sub-indicators using the composite indicator derived from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. The results indicate that the EU countries slightly improved their transport environmental performance, on average 2.8%. The areas where the inefficient countries need more improvement were also identified: reducing the GHG emissions from fossil fuels, increasing the share of transport energy from renewable sources and improving the public transport share of the total passenger transport.

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Global SDG composite indicator: A new methodological proposal that combines compensatory and non‐compensatory aggregations

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This paper presents a Global Sustainable Development Goals Composite Indicator to assess the grade in the achieving of targets associated with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved in the 2030 Agenda. Based on a critical analysis of the SDG Index, we propose a new aggregation methodology that combines compensatory and non‐compensatory aggregation rules. At a first level, a compensatory indicator is obtained by means of a generalized average which is penalized according to the horizontal heterogeneity of each country and the number of uncontrolled indicators in the territory. At a second level, the set of compensatory indicators of each SDG is aggregated by means of a synthetic non‐compensatory indicator based on an ordinal Benefit of the Doubt model. An empirical study is presented for a set of 32 OECD member countries, which shows the potential of this new tool for planning sustainable development policies focused on the identification of weaknesses.

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A benefit-of-the-doubt model with reverse indicators

Cited by 33 publications

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Sustainability performance assessment of the transport sector in European countries

Sustainability performance assessment of the transport sector in European countries

Environmental Performance Assessment of the Transport Sector in the European Union

Global SDG composite indicator: A new methodological proposal that combines compensatory and non‐compensatory aggregations

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