Given the importance the concept of productive efficiency has on analyzing the human
development process, which is complex and multidimensional, this study conducts a …

Urban health indicator (UHI) tools provide evidence about the health impacts of the physical
urban environment which can be used in built environment policy and decision-making …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

This paper contributes a weighted composite indicator of competitiveness for 136 world
tourist destinations. To that end, Data Envelopment Analysis and Multi-Criteria-Decision …

This paper assesses performance and convergence in the treatment of municipal waste by
the members of the European Union-27 (EU-27) during the period 1995–2016. First, a …

In this paper, we propose a weighting scheme for constructing composite indicators based
on Shannon entropy. Its main advantages are that it delivers a set of common weights …

Geometric mean index numbers are a multiplicative aggregation of (price or quantity) ratios
with their importance exponents/weights derived from one or more observed budget shares …

This paper provides a composite indicator of well-being for the 35 OECD countries, as well
as South Africa, Russia and Brazil for the period 2013–2016, considering data on 10 …

Well-being has a multidimensional nature as it depends on multifaceted factors such as
material conditions and quality of life. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and …

There are several ways of aggregating partial performance indicators into composites, each
of them with advantages but also shortcomings and caveats. The objectivity demanded for …