Measuring Industrial and Regional Development of Razavi, Southern and Northern Khorasan Provinces

The purpose of this article is to survey the levels of industrial and regional development and the situation of distribution of industrial, cultural, hygienic and healthy facilities among the cities of the provinces of Razavi Khorasan, Southern Khorasan and northern Khorasan. In order to this, after selection suitable indicators of development, a few statistical methods and multiple branch decision making techniques such as: multiple attribute decision making (MADM), simple additive weighting (SWA) and technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) as well as classical and non-classical taxonomies have been used for industrial and regional development ranking in the year of 2006. Obtained results show that there was a huge difference among the cities from the point of view of industrial and regional development in the year under study. Moreover, a positive and significant relation was found between industrial development and regional one in the provinces. Though, the recorded relation is weaker than that of national level.