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FDI to Developing CountriesAs one of globalisation's most visible dimensions, foreign direct investment (FDI) is central to the prospects for developing countries in the world economy. Key issues include the direction of causation between FDI and growth, the potential role of...
Working Paper
Outfits: Narrowly Tailored Laws that Harm Instead of HelpThe telecommunications sector in Africa presents many exciting prospects to international investors—indeed many billion dollar projects are already underway across the continent. Many of the continent’s current problems can be traced to the...
Working Paper
Diffusion of Digital Mobile TelephonyFactors 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. The market size and network effects are found to play more important roles in the...
Working 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. It focuses on analysing standardization problems...
Book Chapter
Telecommunication and ICT-based services tradePart of Book Industries without Smokestacks
Working 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...
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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). This paper performs a comparative analysis of the competitive dynamics of...
Working Paper
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. These issues have been identified as critical...
Working 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. Then, the link between the ICT sector and GDP growth is being...
Blog
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...
Book Chapter
Outfits: Narrowly Tailored Laws that Harm Instead of HelpThe telecommunications sector in Africa presents many exciting prospects to international investors—indeed many billion dollar projects are already underway across the continent. Many of the continent’s current problems can be traced to the...
Working Paper
SenegalThis paper first summarizes the macroeconomic and trade performance of Senegal, emphasizing the limits of traditional exports. It then focuses on three export sectors which have had some success in the past and have good potential for future growth...
Book
New Economy in DevelopmentWithin 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. The expansion of the service sector in industrialized...
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