This book is intended to help regulators learn about the tools needed to measure efficiency. It is based on lecture notes from courses the World Bank Institute offers in English, French and Spanish throughout the developing world and has benefited from feedback received during those courses. It...

Intro -- Contents -- Cover -- Title -- Foreword v -- About the Authors vii -- Acknowledgments ix -- Abbreviations and Acronyms xi -- 1. Introduction 1 -- 2. Why Should Regulators Be Interested in Efficiency? 5 -- 3. Some TFP Measurement and Decomposition Methods 25 -- 4. An Empirical Example 55...

Softcover version of the second edition Hardcover.Incorporates a new author, Dr. Chris O'Donnell, who brings considerable expertise to the project in the area of performance measurement. Numerous topics are being added and more applications using real data, as well as exercises at the end of the...