Consistency in performance rankings: The Peru water sector

Applied Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 793-805

  Berg, Sanford ^a   Lin, Chen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; STAKEHOLDER; STANDARD (REGULATION); STOCHASTICITY; WATER INDUSTRY;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 40549105398     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600749409     Document Type: Article

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