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The regulation of interconnection and regulatory alignment in the Southern African Development CommunityThis paper analyses interconnection in telecommunications markets in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, focusing on cross-border roaming as well as international interconnection...
Southern African Development Community Competition RegulationWorking Paper
Comparative approaches to key issues in the economic regulation of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and ZimbabweThis paper reviews comparative approaches to key issues in economic regulation in four countries of the Southern African Development Community, and how this has been reflected in outcomes in terms of competition, prices, access, and innovation in tel...
Competition Regulation Southern African Development CommunityWorking Paper
Competitive dynamics of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and ZimbabweLow levels of broadband penetration combined with poor quality of services present a challenge to growth and development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...
Competition Fixed and mobile infrastructure Southern African Development CommunityBook Chapter
Senegal: A service economy in need of an export boostFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Exports Services TourismBook Chapter
Telecommunication and ICT-based services tradeFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Telecommunication Growth InvestmentWorking Paper
Senegal : A service economy in need of an export boostThis paper first summarizes the macroeconomic and trade performance of Senegal, emphasizing the limits of traditional exports...
Exports Services TourismBook Chapter
Outfits: Narrowly Tailored Laws that Harm Instead of Help: A Case Study of Liberia’s Telecommunication LawsThe telecommunications sector in Africa presents many exciting prospects to international investors—indeed many billion dollar projects are already underway across the continent...
International law International trade NegotiationBlog
From the Editor's Desk (May 2014)
28 May 2014 Tony Addison One indispensible part of modern life is the mobile phone. The communications revolution continues to surprise almost everyone—including those most directly involved in rolling out the new technology...
Ecology Food security Methodology (Economics)Working Paper
Outfits: Narrowly Tailored Laws that Harm Instead of Help: A case study of Liberia’s telecommunication lawsThe telecommunications sector in Africa presents many exciting prospects to international investors—indeed many billion dollar projects are already underway across the continent...
International law International trade NegotiationBook
New Economy in Development: ICT Opportunities and ChallengesWithin the last three decades, industrialization, and manufacturing in particular, has decreased in importance as the principal driver of economic growth and development in the world economy...
Industrialization Information technology ManufacturingBook Chapter
Introduction: Charting a New Development Trajectory?From the book: New Economy in Development
Industrialization Information technology ManufacturingJournal Article
Introduction and OverviewPart of Journal Special Issue FDI to Developing Countries
Economic development International finance Foreign investmentsJournal Special Issue
FDI to Developing Countries: the Unfinished AgendaAs one of globalisation's most visible dimensions, foreign direct investment (FDI) is central to the prospects for developing countries in the world economy...
Economic development International finance Foreign investmentsWorking Paper
Diffusion of Digital Mobile Telephony: Are Developing Countries Different?Factors determining the diffusion of digital mobile telephony across 200 developed and developing countries in the 1990s are studied with the aid of a Gompertz model...
Economic development Technological innovations TechnologyWorking Paper
Economic Development Potential through IP Telephony for NamibiaThe aim of this study is to evaluate the economic development potential for Namibia through IP telephony. First, background information on the telecommunication sector in Namibia is given...
Economic development Information technology Technological innovationsWorking Paper
On the Regulation of Telecommunications MarketsThis paper discusses the theoretical concepts underlying recent developments in the regulation of telecommunications in Europe, the USA and developing countries with respect to efficiency and welfare...
Information technology Public welfare Telecommunication