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Financing information and communication infrastructure needs in the developing world : public and private roles

World Bank, World Bank. Global Information & Communication Technologies Dept

2005

Overview

Over the past ten years, private-sector-led growth has revolutionized access to telecommunications. Every region of the developing world benefitted in terms of investment and rollout. This revolution would have been impossible without government reform and oversight. Advanced information and communication infrastructure (ICI) are increasingly important to doing business in a globalizing world. Governments, enterprises, civil society, workers, and poor populations in the developing countries need more affordable access. This report proposes strategies that governments can carry out to attract private investment and ensure the continued evolution and spread of information and communication infrastructure. These strategies encompass more than sector policy alone, for investment decisions are based on a wide range of factors including, for example, the roles played by financial sector development and the broader investment environment. The strategies also include potential public sector investments that can catalyze ICI rollout in subsectors where the private sector is not prepared to intervene on its own.

• Publisher: World Bank. Global Information and Communication Technologies Dept,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC,World Bank
• Subject: AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS / BID / BONDS / CAPACITY BUILDING / CATALYTIC ROLE / CLIENT COUNTRIES / COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE / COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES / COMPETITIVE FORCES / CONCESSIONS / COPYRIGHT / DEBT / DEREGULATION / Deregulierung / Developing countries / DIGITAL DIVIDE / DIVIDENDS / DUOPOLY / E-COMMERCE / ECONOMIC COOPERATION / ECONOMIC RATE OF RETURN / Entwicklungsländer / EXPENDITURES / FINANCIAL SECTOR / FIXED PRICES / FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT / FOREIGN INVESTMENT / FOREIGN INVESTORS / FOREIGN OWNERSHIP / GDP / GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT / GROWTH RATE / Information / INFORMATION SOCIETY / INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS / INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION / INVESTMENT CLIMATE / INVESTMENT COMMITMENTS / INVESTMENT DECISIONS / INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT / INVESTMENT FLOWS / INVESTMENT NEEDS / INVESTMENT PROMOTION / INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS / INVESTMENT RISK / ITU / LEASE CONTRACTS / LICENSES / MULTILATERAL INVESTMENT GUARANTEE AGENCY / OFFERINGS / PORTFOLIO / PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT / PRINTING / PRIVATE CAPITAL / PRIVATE CAPITAL FLOWS / PRIVATE INVESTMENT / PRIVATE INVESTMENTS / PRIVATE SECTOR / Privatization / Privatization -- Developing countries / PUBLIC / PUBLIC OFFERING / PUBLIC SECTOR / PUBLIC SECTOR INVESTMENTS / RADIO / RADIO SPECTRUM / RATE OF RETURN / REGRESSION ANALYSIS / REGULATORY FRAMEWORK / REGULATORY POLICY / REPORTING / RETAINED EARNINGS / ROADS / RURAL OPERATORS / STRATEGIC INVESTORS / SUBSCRIPTION / TAXATION / TAXATION RATES / TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE / TELECOMMUNICATION / Telecommunication -- Deregulation -- Developing countries / TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT / TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATORS / TELECOMMUNICATION POLICY / Telecommunication policy -- Developing countries / TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR / TELECOMMUNICATIONS / TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES / TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE / TELECOMMUNICATIONS INVESTMENT / TELECOMMUNICATIONS INVESTMENTS / TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS / TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY / TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROJECTS / TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM / TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATOR / TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR / TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES / TELEDENSITY / TELEGRAPHY / Telekommunikationsnetz / Telekommunikationspolitik / TELEPHONE DENSITY / TELEPHONE LINES / TELEPHONES / TOTAL MARKET CAPITALIZATION / TRANSACTIONS COSTS / TREASURY / UNIVERSAL ACCESS / UNIVERSAL ACCESS FUNDS / WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION / WTO
• ISBN: 0821363581, 9780821363584