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Restructuring infrastructure in transition economies: November 23, 2007 12:36
The purpose of this paper is to characterise the infrastructure restructuring challenge in the transition economies and to examine carefully the government policies that can promote restructuring effectively.

Economic Development No comments yet
Tags: telecommunications, infrastructure, transition
An assessment of telecommunicatiAn assessment of telecommunications reform in developing countriesons reform in developing countries: December 3, 2007 17:29
The authors analyze the effect of policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral performance using a new panel data set for 86 developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean over the period 1985 to 1999. The authors address three questions: 1) What impact do specific policy changes-relating to ownership and competition-have on sectoral performance? 2) How is the impact of change in any one policy affected by the implementation of the other, and by the overall regulatory framework? 3) Does the sequence in which reforms are implemented affect performance?

Information Society No comments yet
Tags: telecommunications, developing, privatization
The WTO agreement and telecommunications policy reform: December 3, 2007 17:43
The authors assess how developing and transition economies have fared in profiting from changes in the telecommunications market. They also examine the policy challenges that remain, paying special attention to the global market and regulatory milieu fostered by the 1997 WTO Agreement. They ask what this latest transformation has taught us about wise management of this vital part of the world economy's infrastructure.

WTO Accession No comments yet
Tags: WTO, telecommunications