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oshikoya-EN-ERP-36
 Information technology and the challenge of economic development in Africa / Oshikoya, T.W.
Driven by developments in information technology applications, the world is moving rapidly towards knowledge-based economic structures and information societies, which comprise networks of individuals, firms and countries that are linked electronically and in interdependent relationships. Information and telecommunication innovations present opport [...]
African Development Bank; 1998 - 29p., Ref.
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kayani
 Options to rural telecommunications development / Kayani, Rogati
This technical report provides a comprehensive analysis of the technical and financial parameters that have to be considered in formulating policies to reduce the disparities between urban and rural telecommunications services. It addresses the following fundamental issues regarding commercial provision of rural telecommunications services: a) The [...]
World Bank; 1977 - 118p., Bibliogr.
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estachewps3514
 Infrastructure performance and reform in deveeloping and transition economies. Evidence from a survey of productivity measures / Estache, Antonio
The authors review about 80 studies on electricity and gas, water and sanitation, and rail and ports (with a footnote on telecommunications) in developing countries. The main policy lesson is that there is a difference in the relevance of ownership for efficiency between utilities and transport in developing countries. In transport, private operato [...]
The World Bank; 2005 - 27p.; Ref
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estachewps3442
 Emerging infrastructure policy issues in developing countries. A Survey of the recent economic literature / Estache, Antonio
The author reviews the recent economic research on emerging issues for infrastructure policies affecting poor people in developing countries. His main purpose is to identify some of the challenges the international community, and donors in particular, are likely to have to address over the next few years. He addresses six main issues: (1) the neces [...]
The World Bank; 2004 - 42p; Ref.
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cowhey
 The WTO Agreement and telecommunication policy reform / Cowhey, Peter
Every country serious about introducing competition finds that the transition from monopoly to competition is both economically rewarding and laden with policy dilemmas. As a new century begins, we have an essentially new market for telecommunications. Digital technology forced a re-examination of the opportunity costs of protecting traditional tel [...]
World Bank; 2001 - 67p., Ref.
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dasgupta
 Policy reform, economic growth and the digital divide: An econometrics analysis / Dasgupta, Susmita
Rapid growth of Internet use in high-income economies, has raised the specter of a "digital divide" that will marginalize developing countries, because they can neither afford Internet access, nor use it effectively when it is available. Using a new cross-country data set, the authors investigate two proximate determinants of the digital divide: In [...]
World bank; 2001 - 18p.
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bossone2200
 The role of trust in financial sector development / Bossone, Biagio
In any economic environment where decisions are decentralized, agents consider the risk that others might unfairly exploit informational asymmetries to their own disadvantage. Incomplete results, especially, lies at the heart of financial transactions in which agents trade real claims for promises of future real claims. Agents thus need to invest c [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 34p., Bibliogr.
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wps1506
 Restructuring regulation of the rail industry for the public interest / Kessides, Ioannis N.
Throughout the world, the rail industry historically has been one of the most extensively regulated of all sectors. Price, entry, exit, financial structure, accounting methods, vertical relations, and operating rules have all been subject to some form of government control. The public utility paradigm of government regulation has been applied on th [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 45p.
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sirleaf
 The outlook for commercial bank lending to sub-Saharan Africa / Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson
Since its peak in 1980-82, medium- and long-term commercial bank lending to sub-Saharan Africa has been declining - partly because of many banks' perception that lending to the African market represents high risks unjustified by the available returns. The prospects for an appreciable increase in such lending are not promising. Despite some progress [...]
World Bank; 1991 - 46p.
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renaud
 Housing and financial institutions in developing countries: An overview / Renaud, Bertrand
This paper presents an overview of issues arising in the development of housing finance institutions in developing countries. The housing problem is defined as the necessity to reconcile the three partially conflicting objectives of affordability for households, viability for financial institutions and resources mobilization for the expansion of th [...]
World Bank; 1984 - 111p.
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288200PAPER0Skills0development
 Skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa / Richard K. Johanson
The review addresses a list of questions that seem especially pertinent for skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa today, namely: What should be the role of training when there is not enough modern sector employment? Given the widespread decay in public training systems, what should be the role of the public sector in training? Are private traini [...]
The World Bank; 2004 - 245p; Ref.
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wps2932
 China's accession to the World Trade Organization - The services dimension / Mattoo, AAditya
China's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) commitments represent the most radical services reform program negotiated in the World Trade Organization. China has promised to eliminate over the next few years most restrictions on foreign entry and ownership, as well as most forms of discrimination against foreign firms. These changes are in [...]
The World Bank; 2002 - 30p
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fay
 Financing the future: Infrastructure needs in Latin America, 200-2005 / Fay, Marianne
To assess five-year demand for infrastructure investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the private sector's role in meeting this demand, the author developed a model to predict future demand for infrastructure - defined as what consumers and producers would ask for, given their income and level of economic activity. Overall projections ov [...]
World Bank; 2001 - 25p., Ref.
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trujillo
 Privatization and regulation of the seaport industry / Trujillo, Lourdes
With containerized shipping, maritime transport has changed profoundly. Among other things, it has shifted from labor-intensive to more capital-intensive activities, including larger specialized ships that require substantial investments in port infrastructure and equipment. Integrated transport chains have reduced transport costs so much that a sh [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 61p., Ref.
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book
 Food in sub-Saharan Africa: trends and policy challenges for the 1990s / BRAUN, Joachim (von)
IFPRI.; 1990 - 12p.
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ferreira
 Financing private infrastructure in developing countries / Ferreira, David
The authors look at the rationale for financing infrastructure with private capital and the challenges faced. They argue that the private sector is better able to satisfy the increasing demand for integrated infrastructure activities because it is more efficient, and aided by new technologies, and regulatory and contracting schemes. Restructuring a [...]
World Bank; 1996 - 59p., Bibliogr.
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salvator
 El Salvador : Meeting the challenge of globalization / World Bank
Stabilization and adjustment measures implemented since 1989 and the return to peace have laid the foundations for sustained growth in El Salvador. However, there is a need for more rapid growth to consolidate peace and alleviate poverty. El Salvador's vision is to achieve rapid and equitable growth by increasing global competitiveness and entering [...]
World Bank; 1996 - 85p., Bibliogr.
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wps1004
 Family planning programs in sub-Saharan Africa: case studies from Ghana, Rwanda and the Sudan / McNamara, Regina
In the 1980s, signs that sub-Saharan Africans would welcome family planning in numbers sufficient to make a difference in fertility rates were scattered and weak. Pessimists cited formidable cultural and socioeconomic barriers; optimists provided resources for pilot projects, coupled with research to document results and to guide expansion and repl [...]
WorldBank; 1991 - 23p.
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book
 Why structural adjustment has not succeeded in sub-Saharan Africa / Elbadawi, Ibrahim A.
The authors investigated the factors that influenced the participation of sub - Saharan African countries and all low-income countries in World Bank adjustment lending. They estimated how the Bank's adjustment programs affected economic performance in both regions. They found that the marginal contribution of Bank-supported adjustment programs to e [...]
World Bank; 1991 - 96p.
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CR27
 Trends in nutritional status of Adult women in sub-Saharan Africa / Garenne, Michel
ICF Macro; 2011 - 96p.
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