An Assessment of Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries

摘要: Fink, Mattoo, and Rathindran 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, Middle East, Latin America Caribbean over period 1985 to 1999. The authors address three questions: • What impact do specific changes - relating ownership competition have performance? How is change any one affected by implementation other, overall regulatory framework? Does sequence which reforms are implemented affect find that both privatization lead significant improvements performance. But comprehensive program, involving policies support an independent regulator, produced largest gains 8 percent higher level mainlines 21 productivity compared years partial no reform. Interestingly, matters: mainline penetration lower if introduced after privatization, rather than at same time. also autonomous factors, such as technological progress, strong influence performance, accounting increase 5 year teledensity 9 This paper product Trade, Development Research Group part larger effort group improve our understanding services research supported grant from United Kingdom Department International Development.