Bootstrapped Technical Efficiency of African Seaports

Carlos Barros, Albert Assaf and Ade Ibiwoye
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Albert Assaf: University of Massachusetts
Ade Ibiwoye: University of Lagos

A chapter in Essays on Port Economics, 2010, pp 237-250 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper analyzes the efficiency of a representative sample of African seaports using a bootstrapped DEA – Data Envelopment Analysis approach. Bias and confidence intervals are estimated for the efficiency scores. The paper finds that the original efficiency scores are biased. The bootstrapped results indicated that Nigerian seaports are the most efficient, followed by Mozambique and Angola. Discussions of the results as well as related policy implications are provided.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Efficiency Score; Data Envelopment Analysis Model; Container Terminal; Quay Crane (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2425-4_15

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