| An Assessment of Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries’, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2909 (2002) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Fink, Mattoo, and Rathindran analyze the effect of The authors find that both privatization and policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral competition lead to significant improvements in performance using a new panel data set for 86 performance. But a comprehensive reform program, developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, involving both policies and the support of an and Latin America and the Caribbean over the period independent regulator, produced the largest gains-an 1985 to 1999. The authors address three questions: 8 percent higher level of mainlines and a 21 percent o What impact do specific policy changes-relating to higher level of productivity compared to years of partial ownership and competition-have on sectoral and no reform. Interestingly, the sequence of reform performance? matters: mainline penetration is lower if competition is o How is the impact of change in any one policy introduced after privatization, rather than at the same affected by the implementation of the other, and by the time. The authors also find that autonomous factors, overall regulatory framework? such as technological progress, have a strong influence- Does the sequence in which reforms are on telecommunications performance, accounting for an implemented affect performance? increase of 5 percent a year in teledensity and 9 percent in productivity over the period 1985 to 1999. | |||||||||||||||||
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