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 … investment, other provisions address telecommunications services as well as standards and conformity assessment procedures of ICT …

This paper quantifies the extent of preferential trade as a share of total world trade in different regions of the … world and for two periods. Results show that: i) preferential trade represented 40% of world trade in the period 1988 … shares in Asia and Oceania (around 4 per cent) and average values in the rest-of-the-world (Eastern Europe and Africa); iv …

the GATS with respect to basic and value-added telecommunications services. According to the United States, since the … and value-added telecommunications sectors. …

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