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Welfare Effects of Introducing Competition in the Telecom Sector in Djibouti
Decoster, Xavier Stephane - 2019
Djibouti is very well placed, as a landing site of undersea fiber optic cables, to benefit from the digital economy. However, the prevalence of a single national telecom operator in the country has stifled service delivery and innovation in the telecom sector. Mobile broadband coverage and...
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Telecommunications Externality on Migration : Evidence from Chinese Villages
Lu, Yi - 2017
This paper uses a unique natural experiment in Chinese villages to investigate whether access to telecommunications … migration externality of expanding telecommunications access in rural areas, especially in places where migration potential is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973904
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Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance : Evidence from India
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2017
about 4,000 Indian firms from1993 to 2005. They find that banking, telecommunications, insurance and transport reforms all …
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Price Structure and Network Externalities in the Telecommunications Industry : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Iimi, Atsushi - 2016
Many developing countries have experienced significant developments in their telecommunications network. Countries in … fixed-line and mobile telephone operators in 18 African countries. In theory the telecommunications sector has two sector …. Thus, price liberalization could be conducive to development of the telecommunications network led by the private sector …
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Telecommunications Performance, Reforms, and Governance
Estache, Antonio; Goicoechea, Ana; Manacorda, Marco - 2006
The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance …
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Electricity Access and Structural Transformation : Evidence from Brazil's Electrification
Perez‐Sebastian, Fidel - 2020
This study proposes a novel supply-side mechanism driving economic structural transformation: grid electrification. Increasing electricity availability affects the reallocation of inputs to more productive activities through generating higher returns and lowering entry costs in sectors with...
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Falling Short : A Global Survey of Electricity Tariff Design
Foster, Vivien - 2020
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of electricity pricing practices and tariff structure design in more than 60 developed and developing countries worldwide as of 2015-16. It evaluates the performance of electricity tariff designs according to a variety of important dimensions, notably...
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Learning from Power Sector Reform Experiences : The Case of Vietnam
Lee, Alan David - 2020
Vietnam's power sector has developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer among developing countries. This success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also had some positive impact. By the late 1990s, the...
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Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Rana, Anshul - 2020
The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies, with prices set well below the costs of supply. These subsidies have taken a variety of forms: explicit subsidies in the government budget, implicit subsidies in the...
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Cost Recovery and Financial Viability of the Power Sector in Developing Countries : Insights from 15 Case Studies
Huenteler, Joern Torsten - 2020
This paper analyzes power utilities in 15 jurisdictions to understand the determinants of success for reforms aimed at improving financial viability and cost recovery in the power sector and the impacts of these reforms on metrics of sector performance. The analysis finds that electricity...
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