Benchmarking Central American water utilities

Utilities Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 267-275

  Corton, Maria Luisa ^a   Berg, Sanford V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; DEA; Performance indicators; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; UTILITY SECTOR; WATER INDUSTRY;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 68549117288     PISSN: 09571787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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