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Bootstrapped Technical Efficiency of African Seaports

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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.

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  1. Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Technical University of Lisbon and UECE (Research Unit on Complexity and Economics), Lisbon, Portugal

    Carlos Pestana Barros

  2. Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

    Albert Assaf

  3. Department of Actuarial Science, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

    Ade Ibiwoye

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  1. Fac. Ciencias Economicas y, Empresariales, Universidad de Cantabria, avenida de los Castros s/n, Santander, 39005, Spain

    Pablo Coto-Millán

  2. Facultad Ciencias Económicas y, Empresariales, Universidad Cantabria, Avenida de los Castros s/n, Santander, 39005, Spain

    Miguel Angel Pesquera

  3. Facultad Ciencias Económicas y, Empresariales, Universidad Cantabria, Avenida de los Castros s/n, Santander, 39005, Spain

    Juan Castanedo

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Barros, C.P., Assaf, A., Ibiwoye, A. (2010). Bootstrapped Technical Efficiency of African Seaports. In: Coto-Millán, P., Pesquera, M., Castanedo, J. (eds) Essays on Port Economics. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2425-4_15

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