Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Randeep Rathindran
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...
An assessment of telecommunications reform in developing countries
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
The authors analyze the effect of policy reform in basic telecommunications on sectoral performance using a new panel data set for 86 developing countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and...
Measuring services trade liberalization and its impact on economic growth : an illustration
Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep, Subramanian, Arvind
The authors explain how the output growth effect from liberalizing the service sectors differs from the effect from liberalizing trade in goods. They also suggest using a policy-based rather than...
Liberalizing basic telecommunications : the Asian experience
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
The authors examine the liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in Asian countries with a view to identifying good policy and determining how multilateral negotiations can promote it....
Does health insurance impede trade inhealth care services?
Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
There is limited trade in health services despite big differences in the price of health care across countries. Whether patients travel abroad for health care depends on the coverage of treatments by...
Liberalizing Basic Telecommunications: The Asian Experience
Fink, Carsten, Mattoo, Aaditya, Rathindran, Randeep
The liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in Asian countries is examined in this paper with a view to identify the elements of good policy and examine how it can be promoted through...