How efficient are African electricity companies? Evidence from the Southern African countries

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1969-1979

  Estache, Antonio ^a,b   Tovar, Beatriz ^c   Trujillo, Lourdes ^c,d  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Electricity; Malmquist productivity

Indexed keywords

ASSET MANAGEMENT; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ENERGY SUPPLY; MALMQUIST PRODUCTIVITY; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

CORRELATION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; VERTICAL INTEGRATION;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 43149094183     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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