The Evaluation of Relative Efficiency of All Provinces in Terms of Human Development Using NDEA Method

By considering that the resources and accessible facilities are limited, achieving development, particularly high human development is important target in adjusting development plans; therefore in developing countries policy makers and planners are worried about recognition and analysis of accelerating factors in development process as well as diagnosis the barriers, which using of indexes and modern instruments to attain is necessary and evident. Human development is one of noticeable contexts for policy makers, planners and researchers which is measured by human development index (HDI). Criticisms of HDI and creation of nonparametric methods performance evaluation have caused evaluation of human development by applying data envelopment analysis (DEA). The lack of recognition of sources of inefficiency is one of the weakness points in traditional approach in DEA, hence in this paper separation efficiency approach is used, which is based on according to process and network data envelopment analysis (NDEA). In this article by considering a two stage process for human development, which is inclusive making infrastructures and getting results, relative efficiency for human development is measured in all provinces in a five year period from 2010 to 2014. The results of research highlighted that Tehran and Alborz provinces had high efficiency in human development and on the other side in terms of human development compared to the remained provinces, Kurdistan, Mazandaran and Lorestan are ranked that at the end of table. Total efficiency separation illustrated inefficiency in preparing human development infrastructures had more effect in total efficiency.