ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DUALITY IN IRAN (USING FUZZY TOPSIS DECISION-MAKING)

Journal Title: Asian Economic and Financial Review - Year 2015, Vol 5, Issue 4

Abstract

One of the planners and policy-makers? aims on the one hand is optimum allocating and distributing of credits and facilities among regions and on the other hand is providing and compiling a suitable model aiming at achieving economic and social equity as well as creating reasonable and real economic growth. Paying attention to the balanced regional development, decreasing regional and district duality and inequities, regional policy-making and planning for achieving objectives, which change according to structural characteristics, facilities and limitations of each region require studying and identifying of each region according to its position in the whole province. In this study, economic and social duality means differences among provinces of Iran in relation to each other that are determined with four indices of per capita income, export?s relation to production, unemployment rate and Gini coefficient. Fuzzy Topsis Decision-making method for the year 2013 has been used owing to the existing complexities in the development indices.

Authors and Affiliations

Jalil Khodaparast Shirazi| Department of Economics, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

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Jalil Khodaparast Shirazi (2015). ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DUALITY IN IRAN (USING FUZZY TOPSIS DECISION-MAKING). Asian Economic and Financial Review, 5(4), 591-600. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-2189