Making use of a global partitioning (disintegration) approach, a novel necessary and sufficient condition for the creation of Pareto-improving special economic zones is derived. It is shown that the establishment of a special economic zone may be desirable even if foreign investment has an...

Building on a recent groundbreaking OECD/World Bank seminar, this volume explores whether and how trade liberaliaation can contribute to achieving universal service goals and the types of complementary policies required. It focuses on experiences in four sectors: telecommunications, water and...

The model of power sector reform that emerged during the 1990s placed considerable emphasis on the creation of an independent regulatory agency, with a strong orientation toward technically-driven tariff-setting procedures. Despite widespread uptake of regulation, implementation has proved to be...

1. Traditional and Contemporary Notions of Marketing Communications -- 2. Power Shift: Analyzing the Changing Role of Public Relations in the Mar-keting Mix -- 3. Marketing Communication Planning for SMEs in Emerging Markets -- 4. Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives: A...