Comparing and contrasting poverty reduction performance of social welfare programs across jurisdictions in Canada using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): An exploratory study of the era of devolution

Evaluation and Program Planning

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 457-467

  Habibov, Nazim N ^a   Fan, Lida ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; DEA; Efficiency; Poverty; Public assistance; Social assistance

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLICY MAKING; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; WELFARE PROVISION;

ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; SOCIAL WELFARE; STATISTICS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

CANADA; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL WELFARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

CANADA;

EID: 77954174888     PISSN: 01497189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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