Measuring efficiency in local government: an analysis of New South Wales municipalities' domestic waste management function.
Data envelopment analysis is used to measure the technical and scale efficiency of the domestic waste management function in 103 New South Wales local governments. After allowance is made for nondiscretionary environmental factors that may affect the provision of these local public services, such as...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 232 - 250 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2001
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