Measuring Sustainable Development Using an Extended Hellwig Method: A Case Study of Education
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Measuring Sustainable Development Using an Extended Hellwig Method: A Case Study of Education Ewa Roszkowska1 · Marzena Filipowicz‑Chomko2 Accepted: 6 September 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
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 prior‑ ity 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 develop‑ ment 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 considera‑ tion 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 Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. (Nelson Mandela)
* Marzena Filipowicz‑Chomko [email protected] Ewa Roszkowska [email protected] 1
University of Bialystok, Warszawska 53, 15‑063 Bialystok, Poland
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Bialystok University of Technology, Wiejska 45A, 15‑351 Bialystok, Poland
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1 Introduction The Europe 2020 strategy (European Commission 2010) is the EU’s agenda for growth and job creation, which emphasizes mutually reinforcing priorities of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. For each of these priorities, the strategy defined five headline targets at the EU level, which belong to thematic areas covering issues of employment, education, poverty and social exclusion, climate change and energy, R&D and innovation. These tar‑ gets should be met by 2020. Composite indices are widely used as synthetic measures for ranking and benchmark‑ ing alternatives across complex concepts. Additionally, Multi-Criteria Decision Analy‑ sis (MCDA) offers flexible tools for the quantitative assessment and ranking of options according to multiple system dimensions, which are not directly measurable or clearly defined, such as sustainability, human development, competitiveness and quality of govern‑ ance (Wang et al. 2009; Huang et al. 2011; Cinelli et al. 2014; El Gibari et al. 2018). For building composite indices in transparent and representati
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