The determinants of technical efficiency of manufacturing firms in Ghana

Global Economy Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Faruq, Hasan A ^a   Yi, David T ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; FDI; Ghana; import substitution; technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149247119     PISSN: 15245861     EISSN: 15245861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1524-5861.1646     Document Type: Article

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