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Price Structure and Network Externalities in the Telecommunications Industry: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa / Iimi, Atsushi
Many developing countries have experienced significant developments in their telecommunications network. Countries in Africa are no exception to this. The paper examines what factor facilitates most network expansion using micro data from 45 fixed-line and mobile telephone operators in 18 African countries [...]
The World Bank; 2007 - 43p; Ref
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Infrastructure and Trade Preferences for the Livestock Sector: Empirical Evidence from the Beef Industry in Africa / Iimi, Atsushi
Trade preferences are expected to facilitate global market integration and offer the potential for rapid economic growth and poverty reduction for developing countries. But those preferences do not always guarantee sustainable external competitiveness to beneficiary countries and may risk discouraging their efforts to improve underlying productivit [...]
The World Bank; 2007 - 39p. ; Ref.
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Networks, communities and markets in sub-saharan Africa: Implications for firm growth and investment / Fafchamps, Marcel
This paper examines how relationships and networks affect market exchange in Sub- Saharan Africa. After noting that market exchange arguably plays a larger role in Africa than in developed economies, we show that the presence of transactions costs naturally leads market participants to enter in long-term trading relationships. These relationships f [...]
CSAE; 1999 - 22p., Ref.
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Road Network Upgrading and Overland Trade Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa / Buys, Piet
Recent research suggests that isolation from regional and international markets has contributed significantly to poverty in many Sub-Saharan African countries. Numerous empirical studies identify poor transport infrastructure and border restrictions as significant deterrents to trade expansion. In response, the African Development Bank has proposed [...]
The WORLD BANK; - 58p. ; réf
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Telecommunications policies for Sub-Saharan Africa / Mustafa, Mohammad A.
The study's main purpose is to consider how the World Bank's global strategy for the telecommunication sector can be applied in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. This report assesses the sector's performance, identifies strategies of sector reform applicable to the region, reviews reform underway as of 1995 in five countries, offers some suggest [...]
WORLD BANK; 1997 - 73p.
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Beyond Privatization : the second wave of telecommunications reforms in Mexico / Wellenius, Bjorn
From 1989 to 1994 the government of Mexico carried out a major restructuring of the telecommunications sector. This paper gives a concise overview of the context, issues, and options of telecommunications policy and regulatory reform in Mexico as the market is being opened to widespread new entry and competition. First, it briefly reviews the initi [...]
World Bank; 1996 - 37p., ref.
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Trade negotiations in the presence of network externalities / Kubota, Keiko
Network externalities exist when the bene…t from a good or service depends on the number of other consumers using the same good or service (as happens, for example, with telecommunications, television broadcasting standards, and many other technology-related services). National monopolies, regulated and endorsed by sovereign governments, tended t [...]
World Bank; 2000 - 21p., Ref.
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Congestion pricing and network expansion / Nasser, Thomas-Olivier
Over the past decade network industries (such as gas, electricity, and telecommunications) have undergone a dramatic transformation. Competition has been introduced in industries that had long been viewed as textbook examples of natural monopolies. Production and transport have been unbundled to foster the introduction of competition: the capacity [...]
World Bank; 1998 - 25p., Ref.
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Survey research by telephone; 2e Ed. / FREY, James H.
SAGE Publications; 1989 - 289p., Ref.
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Sexual networking and AIDS in sub-Saharan African: behavioural research and the social context / ORUBULOYE, I.O./CALDWELL, John C.
Australian National University; 1994 - 275p.
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Telecommunication reform in Ghana / Haggarty, Luke
In 1996 Ghana privatized its incumbent telecommunications firm by selling 30 percent of Ghana Telecom to Telekom Malaysia, licensing a second network operator, and allowing multiple mobile firms to enter the market. The reforms yielded mixed results. Landline telephone penetration increased dramatically while the number of mobile subscribers surpas [...]
The World Bank; 2003 - 40p; Ref.
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Does sequencing matter? Regulation and privatization in telecommunications reforms / Wallsten, Scott
The question of the most effective order of reforming state-owned enterprises has been hotly debated over the years. In the early 1990s, many western advisers encouraged Eastern European countries, and the former Soviet Union, to privatize firms quickly under the assumption that market institutions would develop once firms were privately owned. The [...]
World Bank; 2002 - 21p., Ref.
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Ringing in the 20th century: The effects of state monopolies, private ownership, and operating licenses on telecommunications in Europe, 1892-1914 / Wallsten, Scott
Countries around the world are liberalizing their telecommunications networks by privatizing incumbent state-owned firms and introducing competition. For many, this change represents a return to private provision and competition-not a new phenomenon. The beginning of the 20th century saw great variation in the structure of telecommunications sector [...]
World Bank; 2001 - 32p., Ref.
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Shaping future Gato rules for trade in services / Mattoo, Aaditya
The new round of negotiations has begun with a mechanical sense of "since we said we would, therefore we must," says the author. To make the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) more effective ay liberalization, the author suggests improving the agreement's rules, countries' specific commitments, and the negotiating methodology: 1) Wastefu [...]
World Bank; 2001 - 32p., Ref.
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Telecommunications sector reform in Asia: Toward a new pragmatism / Smith, Peter L.
Governments in Asia are reappraising telecommunications policies in light of changing technological and economic conditions, particularly chronic unmet demand for telecommunications services. This report challenges the economic rationales (economies of scale and scope, and externalities, for example) that have been used to support monopoly provisio [...]
World Bank; 1994 - 103p.
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Can Sub-Saharan Africa Leap into Global Network Trade ? / Subramanian, Uma
This paper examines opportunities for Sub-Saharan African countries to effectively participate in globalization, particularly given the increasing interest of China and India in Sub-Saharan Africa. How can Sub-Saharan Africa fully engage and gain benefits from global network trade? Over the past 15 years Asia has become Africa's fastest growing exp [...]
the World Bank; - 29p; Bib
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New tools for studying network industry reforms in developing countries. The telecommunications and electricity regulation database / Wallsten, Scott
Infrastructure industries-including telecommunications, electricity, water, and gas-underwent massive structural changes in the 1990s. During that decade, hundreds of privatization transactions valued at billions of dollars were completed in these sectors in developing and transition economies. While privatization has received the most attention, r [...]
The World Bank; 2004 - 46p. Ref.
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Telecommunications reform in Malawi / Clarke,George R.
In 1998 the Government of Malawi decided to reform its telecommunications sector. Although the reform was ambitious in some ways, it was modest when compared with the most ambitious reforms adopted elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. The two main accomplishments were splitting the incumbent fixed line monopoly, the Malawi Post and Telecommunications C [...]
The World Bank; 2003 - 58p; Ref.
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Infrastructure coverage and the poor: a global perspective / Komives, Kristin
The authors use the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys from 15 countries (covering more than 55,500 households) to examine the relationship between infrastructure coverage and household income. The results show that throughout the world all income groups have much higher levels of coverage for electricity than for other [...]
World Bank; 2001 - 46p., Ref.
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New media for workers' education and training /
ILO; - 108p., Bibliogr.
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