Measuring the Degree of Development in East Azerbaijan Towns Based on Human Development Index (HDI)

Subject Areas : Business Management

Karamatollah Ziadi ¹ , Navid Saidi Rezvani ² , Leila Baggal Salehpour ³

1 - Professor and Faculty Member of Tehran University
2 - Faculty Member (Assistant Professor) Qazvin Unit, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
3 - Master of Science (MSc), Department of Urbanism

Received: 2009-07-04 Accepted : 2010-03-04 Published : 2010-03-21

Keywords: factor analysis, Human Development Index (HDI), Rate of development, Central-peripheral development model,

Abstract :

The main purpose of this research is measuring the degree of development in East Azerbaijan towns based on some development indexes in order to obtain the quantity and reasons of regional non-equality along with presenting some solutions for decreasing the degree of non-development of the areas. The method of research is descriptive - analytical  using HDI model (human development index) that uses  reduced indexes from 31 to 7 economical-social, popular, settlement facilities, sanitary-treatment, occupation, natural-economical substructures,  agriculture  and the combined index of seven indexes in years 1365,1375 and 1385 time sequences. According to the results obtained from the analysis of the model, there is a fundamental difference in providing development indexes among the towns and these towns are gradable in three groups of developed, semi developed and deprived, and with the passing of the time the rate of development has been increased. 

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