Malmquist indices of productivity change in Botswana's financial institutions

Global Business and Economics Review

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-43

  Moffat, Boitumelo ^a   Valadkhani, Abbas ^a   Harvie, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Botswana; Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Financial institutions; Technical and pure technical efficiencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 66349098303     PISSN: 10974954     EISSN: 17451329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/GBER.2009.025380     Document Type: Article

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