Measuring the performance of water service providers in urban India: Implications for managing water utilities

Water Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 391-408

  Gupta, Shreekant ^a   Kumar, Surender ^a   Sarangi, Gopal K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Efficiency; India; Municipal corporations; Parastatals; Urban water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862651964     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2011.109     Document Type: Article

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