Public security in Brazil: Efficiency and technological gaps

This article analyzes the technical efficiency, the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and the technological gap in public security services in Brazilian States. The order—m frontier is used for results estimation. The TFP variation is built by decomposing the Malmquist productivity index into technica...

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Published in:EconomiA
Main Authors: Francisco Soares de Lima, Emerson Marinho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2017-01-01
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758016301072