Productivity assessment of African seaports with biased technological change

Transportation Planning and Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 663-675

  Barros, Carlos Pestana ^a   Peypoch, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b University of Perpignan Via Domitia   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; biased technological change; data envelopment analysis; Luenberger productivity indicator; seaports

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; MOZAMBIQUE; NIGERIANS; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY ASSESSMENT; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; SEAPORTS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; PUBLIC POLICY;

PRODUCTIVITY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; PORT; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TRANSPORTATION POLICY;

AFRICA;

EID: 84864689402     PISSN: 03081060     EISSN: 10290354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2012.710033     Document Type: Article

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