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Communications Networks and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Lydon, Reamonn; WILLIAMS, MARK - 2014

It is widely accepted that investment is essential for the long-term economic growth of developing countries. There is some evidence that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries provides spill-over benefits through technology and skills transfer. Understanding the determinants of...

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Mobile Communications of the Needy/Poor : Comparative European Macro-Data on Mobile Communications for the Needy/Poor, 'Social Mobile Tariffs', and the 'Mobile Communications Divide'

Pau, Louis-Francois; Puga, Pedro; Chen, Hong - 2009

Some COST 605 Action participating countries have contributed to a survey on the above subject. The focus is on: 1) social parameters , demographics / employment:/income of needy/poor people, and for measured or assumed mobile service usage and spending 2) cases of individual or groups of needy...

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Communications Policy, Media Development, and Convergence

Galbi, Douglas A. - 2001

In the deliberations of scholars, policy analysts, and policy makers, television has exceptional power and influence. Yet the historical record shows that television has not changed the economics of attention for large populations in the course of their daily lives. This contrast is not merely a...

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Regulatory Effectiveness : Namibia's Communications Regulatory Framework

Shanapinda, Stanley - 2017

Communications regulatory frameworks are established to achieve regulatory objectives such as affordable pricing, universal ICT access and usage, and competition. These objectives may however not be met. In this paper however, we present the regulatory outcomes of Namibia's communications...

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Collusion in multiobject auctions : an experimental evidence

Matousek, Jindrich; Cingl, Lubomir - 2015

to collude among bidding participants due to a provision of a simple communication channel. The results suggest that the … combinatorial bidding format does not bring higher efficiency. Allowing for communication increases efficiency in both examined … allocation compared to the auction formats without the communication channel. Combinatorial bidding on packages makes the …

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Communications technology and terrorism

Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2018

By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...

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Communications Technology and Terrorism

Mahmood, Rafat - 2020

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Do Anti-Spam Measures Effectively Cover the E-Mail Communication Network? A Formal Approach

Schryen, Guido - 2007

-spam measures, we have been reasonably able to withstand spam e-mails and use the Internet for regular communication. However, if we … open communication, anti-spam activities should be performed more systematically than is currently the case regarding the …

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Games of Connectivity

Dubey, Pradeep K. - 2006

We consider a communications network in which users transmit beneficial information to each other at a cost. We pinpoint conditions under which the induced cooperative game is supermodular (convex). Our analysis is in a lattice-theoretic framework, which is at once simple and able to encompass a...

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A New Account of Personalization and Effective Communication

Galbi, Douglas A. - 2003

The effects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the information economy and society is an issue … understand such questions concerning the effects of information and communication technology on daily life, this paper explores … central aspects of effective communication across a large population. The observed name brand differentiation and preference …

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