Human development and data envelopment analysis: A structured literature review

Mariano, Enzo Barberio; Sobreiro, Vinícius Amorim; Rebelatto, Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento

doi:10.1016/j.omega.2015.01.002

Cited by 146 publications

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“…Social Efficiency is a new field of study, with several gaps to fill, which analyzes the capacity of a country to transform wealth produced into HD (Mariano et al, 2015). The pioneer to calculate the countries' social efficiency was Despotis (2005a), using GDP per capita as input and education and life expectancy as outputs in the DEA -Variable Returns to Scale (VRS) model.…”

Section: Social Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Complexity and Human Development: DEA performance measurement in Asia and Latin America

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Palavras-chave: Análise por Envoltória de Dados (DEA); Análise em janela; Complexidade econômica; Economic Complexity Index (ECI); Desenvolvimento humano.Abstract: Economic growth is not the only factor to explain human development. Therefore, many authors have prioritized studies to measure the Human Development Index. However, these indexes do not analyze how Economic Complexity can increase Human Development. This paper aimed to determine how efficiently nations from Latin America and Asia measure a country's performance in converting Economic Complexity into Human Development, between 2010 and 2014. We used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), through the Variable Returns of Scale (VRS) Model and Window Analysis. Results showed that in 2014, all Asian countries, except China and the Philippines, were efficient; on the other hand Cuba was the benchmark for inefficient countries. Window Analysis showed Japan, South Korea and Singapore were efficient over time. This result confirms the initial hypothesis of this article: the more complex countries are the more efficiently they create Human Development.

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Section: Social Efficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Complexity and Human Development: DEA performance measurement in Asia and Latin America

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“…DEA is a mathematical programming technique that was originally proposed by Charnes et al [69] to measure efficiency in production. It has also been widely used in the estimation of QoL indexes (see [70] for an extensive review of the literature).…”

Section: Estimating Quality Of Life Scores In Municipalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Does Good Governance Relate to Quality of Life?

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This paper explores the relationship between the practices of good governance and the quality of life at the municipal level in Spain. A composite indicator of the quality of life of 393 Spanish municipalities in 2011 is estimated using varied statistical information. For this purpose, we follow a benefit of the doubt approach based on Data Envelopment Analysis. Then three dimensions of good governance are considered: transparency, participation, and accountability. The results show a significant positive relationship between quality of life and participation and financial accountability. However, transparency seems to be unrelated to quality of life.

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“…Since DEA analysis provides a significant contribution to the better understanding and study of this process, it has been commonly used in the literature. A literature review paper towards the utilization of the DEA conducted for the measurement of human development is made by Mariano et al (2015).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, all of the variables (namely, variables such as life expectancy at birth, mean years of schooling, expected years of schooling, gross national income per capita used to create the HDI) used for ranking of the countries efficiency values are output in the DEA analysis in this study. If a composite index (CI) that will be created by using DEA has only the desirable attributes in this way, then the approach utilized will be called as "the benefit of the doubt (BoD)" (Mariano et al, 2015). While the standard DEA models are based on the ratio between desirable (more-the-better) and undesirable (less-the-better) performance measures, BoD models use only the desirable attributes and are exclusively focused on aggregating outputs.…”

Section: Dea Models Without Inputsmentioning

confidence: 99%