2024/08/21 by Chimwanda, Peter, Nyamugure, Philimon, Mdlongwa, Precious
#Efficiency #Frontier #Multilevel #Tied data
paper · doi:10.60814/jts.v1i2.95
Urban local governments of Zimbabwe are owed billions of dollars by citizens. This inability, by the local authorities, to collect revenue from citizens has resulted in poor service delivery.This research, measures the efficiency levels of urban local governments of Zimbabwe in collecting revenue from given sources using four frontier models. The main objective of the research is to establish the efficiency levels of urban local authorities of Zimbabwe using a proposed multilevel stochastic frontier. Tied data with two levels, the source and the municipality, is collected from a sample of urban local authorities. The data is analysed and the results show that the proposed multilevel model generates efficiency levels that are significantly higher than those of any of the other three models.