Applying cost/benefit analysis to evaluate investment in GIS: The case of Ghana's lands commission secretariat, Accra

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 489-505

  Karikari, Isaac ^a   Stillwell, John ^b  

^a Lands Commission   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS;

COST-BENEFITS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATIONS; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; FINANCIAL ANALYSIS; FUNDINGS; INVESTMENT EVALUATION; MANAGEMENT IS; TOP MANAGEMENT; TOP MANAGERS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GIS; INVESTMENT; METHODOLOGY;

ACCRA; AFRICA; GHANA; GREATER ACCRA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33745243298     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2005.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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