# Fuzzy Systems Modeling of Ease of Doing Business Indicators

> MeRC Working Paper #25 by Roham, Gabrielyan and Archer, August 2008: a fuzzy set approach to composite Ease of Doing Business indicators, with a Canadian case study.

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Working Paper #25 by Mehrdad Roham, Anait R Gabrielyan and Norman P Archer, August 2008.

- EDB indicators help evaluate national business environments.
- The World Bank studied them annually for over 170 nations.
- That work involved many complications and uncertainties.
- The paper applied fuzzy set theory to build composite EDB indicators.
- The approach was implemented and its procedures illustrated.
- A Canada case study evaluated, labelled and ranked the indicators.
- The approach showed the ease of using a fuzzy application.
- Results were compared with the World Bank's rankings.
- A grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada supported the work.

Keywords: fuzzy sets, Ease of Doing Business, linguistic aggregation, fuzzy ranking.