MCDM'25 - paper no. 7
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES OF POLAND AND CANADA AS COMPARED TO THE EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES
Kazimierz Zaraś, Jean-Charles Marin, Bryan Trudel
Abstract:
The objective of this article is to expose the results of a research using DRSA (Dominance-based Rough Set Approach) to help the European Union (EU) identifying political, economical, sociological and technological strategic objectives. Using the proposed methodology, politicians and leaders will be able to prioritize strategic development objectives according to Political, Economical, Sociological and Technological (PEST) needs of a specific candidate country to the EU. More precisely, the proposed methodology classifies all the European Union's countries in the following three categories: [A] EU countries that are doing well according to the selected indicators; [B] EU countries that need support to acquire category A status; [C] EU countries ranked the lowest and needing special support with regard to the criterion or criteria considered. The three categories are delimited by tertiles relative to the average ranking of all EU countries separately and including Canada. Afterwards, the DRSA provides decision rules based on this classification. These decision rules thus focus on the PEST needs of countries and aim at improving their development and classification by pointing out what is needed to be included in the different categories. The case of Canada and Poland are of particular interest because Canada's trade turnover is dominated by exchange with the United States and is currently threatened by the protectionist policy of President Trump. Canadian politicians are increasingly proposing to change Canada's trade strategy towards joining the European Union. According to Thomas Lukaszuk Vice Prime Minister of Alberta, Poland could play an important role in this endeavor.
Keywords:
international development, European Union countries, international aid, economic growth, strategic objectives, Rough Set Theory, DRSA, selection of portfolio projects, multi-criteria analysis
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Kazimierz Zaraś, Jean-Charles Marin, Bryan Trudel, (2025), SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES OF POLAND AND CANADA AS COMPARED TO THE EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES, Multiple Criteria Decision Making (19), pp. 138-148
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