Measuring relative efficiency in health and education sector: The case of East European countries

Actual Problems of Economics

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 305-314

  Aristovnik, Aleksander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

DEA; Eastern Europe; Education; Efficiency; FDH; Health; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867763876     PISSN: 19936788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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