Benchmarking in the Latin American water sector: The case of Peru

Utilities Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 133-142

  Corton, Maria Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Efficiency frontier; Measures of efficiency

Indexed keywords

PRIVATIZATION; STANDARD (REGULATION); WATER INDUSTRY; WATER SUPPLY;

PERU;

EID: 0043071043     PISSN: 09571787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-1787(03)00035-3     Document Type: Article

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