East / West Azerbaijan, Ardabil and Zanjan provinces place, relative privileges and characteristics in the country’s national economy

Subject Areas : Business Management

Samad Hekmatifarid ¹ , Habib Agajani ² , Hosein Mirzaye ³

1 - Ph.D. student of Economics, University of Tabriz
2 - Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Oku
3 - Assistant Professor and Faculty Member of Payame Noor University

Received: 2016-01-03 Accepted : 2016-01-03 Published : 2009-02-19

Keywords: Taxonomy, Relative privilege, Perspective document, Place coefficient, Second region provinces,

Abstract :

It is necessary for providing national perspective document for each of the distinctive regions and provinces in the country a clear and precise role be defined and a regional planning be prepared based on that role. This study deals with presenting characteristics and economic indictors, their place and role of aforementioned provinces in countrys national economy, and specify their Privileges in providing national perspective document. After presenting the region s total characteristics, populational indicators, work power in macro provinces in the region, the study was compared and analyzed with other provinces in the country. The work power relative productivity indicators, added value coefficient, place coefficient and employment coefficient for recognition and prioritizing economy’s fifteen section activities in each of the region provinces were used in 1388. The activities ranking was done through taxonomy method and finally the relative privileges of each province was discussed and analyzed.

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