Ranking of UE countries in terms of economic governance indicators in years 2010 and 2014: Hellwig's method and cluster analysis Cover Image

Ranking państw Unii Europejskiej ze względu na wartość wskaźników ładu gospodarczego w latach 2010 i 2014 przy wykorzystaniu metody Hellwiga i analizy skupień
Ranking of UE countries in terms of economic governance indicators in years 2010 and 2014: Hellwig's method and cluster analysis

Author(s): Anna Iwacewicz-Orłowska, Dorota Sokołowska
Subject(s): National Economy, Supranational / Global Economy, Public Finances
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: ład gospodarczy; rozwój zrównoważony; Unia Europejska; metoda Hellwiga; analiza skupień; economic area; sustainable development; European Union; Hellwig's method; cluster analysis

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the paper is to perform an analysis of those indicators of sustainable development which are relevant for economic governance and to develop a ranking of the European Union countries according to the value of these indicators in the years 2010 and 2014. In the research, 28 member states of the European Union are analysed, using Hellwig's method and cluster analysis. The outcome of the research is a ranking EU countries in terms of their sustainable development under the framework of economic governance for the years 2010 and 2014 and an analysis of the indicators which influence the positions of individual states in the presented rankings. As part of the conducted data cluster analysis, the similarities and differences of the EU states are described on the basis of twenty-three studied attributes.

  • Issue Year: 88/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 245-265
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish