An equity-oriented rethink of global rankings with complex networks mapping development.

ABSTRACT: Nowadays, world rankings are promoted and used by international agencies, governments and corporations to evaluate country performances in a specific domain, often providing a guideline for decision makers. Although rankings allow a direct and quantitative comparison of countries, sometimes they provide a rather oversimplified representation, in which relevant aspects related to socio-economic development are either not properly considered or still analyzed in silos. In an increasingly data-driven society, a new generation of cutting-edge technologies is breaking data silos, enabling new use of public indicators to generate value for multiple stakeholders. We propose a complex network framework based on publicly available indicators to extract important insight underlying global rankings,

SUBMITTER: Bellantuono L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7582917 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature