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Title: | Efficiency Measurement in Australian Local Government: The Case of New South Wales Municipal Water Services | Contributor(s): | Woodbury, Kim (author); Dollery, Brian Edward (author) | Publication Date: | 2004 | DOI: | 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2004.00098.x | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/3540 | Abstract: | Australian local government has experienced a series of reforms directed at increasing economic efficiency. An important element in the reform program has been the development of a number of partial indicators of local government service delivery in the states and territories. This paper attempts to augment this literature on performance measurement in Australian local government by using data envelopment analysis (DEA) with holistic indices of allocative and technical efficiency in New South Wales (NSW) municipal water services. It also seeks to incorporate qualitative indicators into efficiency measures. "Best-practice" councils are identified and the underlying causes of municipal water service efficiency are analyzed. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | The Review of Policy Research, 21(5), p. 615-636 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1541-1338 1541-132X |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 140214 Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 910299 Microeconomics not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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