Performance assessment and monitoring of water infrastructure: An empirical case study of benchmarking in Uganda

Water Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 475-491

  Mugisha, Silver ^a  

^a National Water and Sewerage Corporation   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Commercial orientation; Customer orientation; Monitoring; Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348947921     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2007.022     Document Type: Article

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