Construction of Composite Indicator for Human Development Based on Islamic Civilization's Teachings and its Simulation in Assessing the Position of the Islamic Republic of Iran

This research provides a comprehensive composite indicator to evaluation human development based on Islamic civilization’s teachings. According to analysis of theoretical framework of Islamic civilization’s teachings, human development in this research includes “economic-welfare”, “social-cultural”, “religious-ethical”, “political-governmental” and “scientific-educational” dimensions which are derived from the extension of Islamic teachings in the field of human life. Final composite indicator of this research will be derived from a seven-step method and findings of that indicator show that scientific-educational dimension and public health component are the most important strengths of I.R. Iran in which if these elements have more weight in final composite indicator, situation of I.R. Iran will be 10 steps higher than current situation. But the economic-welfare dimension (except infrastructure capitals) and the efficiency of governmental organizations and legislative institutions are the most important weaknesses of I.R. Iran and improvement of business environmental, macroeconomics indicators, professional legislation and stability of laws and regulations and increment of efficiency of executive organizations could have important effect on situation of I.R. Iran.