Abstract:
Development and progress are ideals that always different countries have pursued. Everybody welcomes a developed country with people free from development obstacles. Indeed, realization of such a goal requires developmental planning in national and local scales taking into account the population growth rate, economical, social, cultural, and political problems, and generally, imbalances and dualities from which the whole country suffers. Hence, it seems inevitably and vitally necessary to pay attention to regional planning in Iran, and, more rapid growth and development of the country can be achieved with the aid of such planning and through growth and flourishing of different regions commensurate with their capacities and capabilities. The current paper is attempted to comparatively assess the performance and efficiency of Iranian provinces in terms of development level using Taxonomy and Morris models. It also aims at analyzing statuses of Iranian in terms of inequality extent in enjoying development benefits using standard score method. The research results are suggestive of the fact that Sistan and Baluchistan Province assumes the lowest rank (30th among the 30 provinces) in all three methods under study. Due to presence of some obstacles and lack of proper grounds, it is an inevitable necessity to rethink and make fundamental planning in this respect.
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Development, Taxonomy and Morris, Sistan and Baluchistan province, Iran INTRODUCTION Developmental inequality of regions is among the recently emerging issues in regional and areal planning literature but its status has not been clearly specified in our country.
Mesrinejad and Turky (2004) in a research entitled "Determination of Educational Underdevelopment Level of Iran’s Provinces (Numerical Taxonomy Technique)" inferred that Khorasan and Sistan and Baluchistan Provinces with underdevelopment indices of 0.
Sorkhkamal (2008) Studied development level of cities in Khorasan Razavi Province in 84 social, economical, cultural, etc indices using numerical taxonomy model and several other models as complement with regard to evaluation of development and regional ranking.
Numerical taxonomy technique, Morris model, and standard score technique are among the methods used for studying imbalanced growth and development among regions of a country.
Majority of executive agents and capital owners in this free trade region come from other regions of the country (ESGAEAO1, 2007) Studying Status of Employment and Unemployment as Major Development Components in Sistan and Baluchistan Province Province’s population has increased 2.
Population growth rate of this province in Table 3: Ranking of Iran’s provinces and position of Sistan and Baluchistan based on numerical taxonomy technique Row Development Status Province Number Percentage 1 Developed (Enjoyed) Yazd, Semnan, Esfahan, KhorasanRazavi, Mazandaran, Tehran, Qom, Qazvin, Eastern Azerbaijan, Fars, Markazi 11 36.
Calculation results indicate that the first and last ranks in terms of development level respectively belonged to Yazd and Sistan- Baluchistan Provinces.