This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role …

Based on the first comprehensive mapping of telecommunications provisions telecommunications in regional trade … agreements (RTAs), this paper shows that telecommunications provisions in RTAs have evolved and expanded significantly over the … years. While some provisions focus on information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure, policy and …

/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …

Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the … important events in recorded history. Other world historians insist that globalization stretches back even earlier. There is a … third view which argues that the world economy was fragmented and completely de-globalized before the 19th century. None of …