R&S - Research Studies Anatolia Journal
Yazarlar: Özge EREN, Ceki Murat MİZRAHİTOKATLI
Konular:Beşeri Bilimler, Ortak Disiplinler
DOI:10.33723/rs.646883
Anahtar Kelimeler:Human Development Index,Welfare Measurements,Kendall Tau Rank Correlation,MAUT,TOPSIS
Özet: The concepts such as happiness, peace and prosperity, which have been questioned and discussed from past to present, are fundamentally reference to the better survival of societies and reflect the human development at a certain level. National or international institutions and organizations have developed different indexes to measure similar or different developments As an example of these indexes; Human Development Index, Better Life Index, Press Freedom Index and Entrepreneurship Index can be given. The study was constructed on the re-evaluation of the Human Development Index, which was proposed by the Unıted Nations (UN). It was aimed at measuring the quality of life of people, and ıt was reshaped as a different dimension of welfare according to Maslow Hierarchy of Needs. Different criteria from different area including health, life satisfaction, security, income, education, environment, civil participation , which are thought to be included in the Maslow hierarchy of needs, have been tried to be taken up with a current approach. In this study, the needs of Maslow's Pyramid were re-shaped by taking into consideration the opinions and suggestions of a sociologist who is expert in their field, and it was ensured that various countries of the world were ranked among themselves using various Multi Criteria Decision Making Techniques. In particular, some of the criterias were included in the analysis first time. In fact, the main purpose of the study is to think that the societies where the needs of the individual can meet are much more prosperous. With this in mind, Maslow's principles are diversified and replicated with the expert opinion and reveal the rankings of various countries whose data can be reached. In the study, country performances were determined by Multi Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) and TOPSIS methods, and then the strength and direction of Kendall Tau rank correlation was calculated to measure both the consistency of these rankings with Human Development Index (İGE). When paired correlations were examined, it was found that MAUT rankings showed higher correlation than TOPSIS rankings with İGE.