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Other Resources
Over the last fifteen years, governments around the world pursued policies to involve
the private sector in the delivery and financing of infrastructure services. Private
participation in infrastructure (PPI) and reforms were driven by the high costs
and poor performance of state-owned network utilities. The scale of this move away
from the dominant public sector model was far more rapid than had been anticipated
at the start of the 1990s with investment flows peaked at US$114 billion in 1997.
But they sharply fall after that, and recently recovered.
The following resources aim at providing the broader context in which the data collected
by the PPI Project database have taken place. The resources include toolkits to
design PPI schemes, websites that contains papers discussing PPI issues or transaction
information, and selected reading lists of papers dealing with private participation
in the different infrastructure sectors, and reviewing country or project level
experiences.
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Telecommunication Papers
This reading list includes papers dealing with strategies
to further develop the sector where the private sector plays a key role.
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Transforming telecoms in Afghanistan: Expanding affordable access by introducing competition
Author:
Gridlines No. 1, Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), April 2006
Source:
World Bank, 2006.
After the war in 2002 there were only 2 telephones for every 1,000 Afghans, and communicating between provinces was almost impossible, even for the government. Today there are more than a million mobile subscribers with national and global access. Recognizing that telecommunications would be crucial to rebuilding the country, the government acted quickly to promote private entry—and mobile operators responded. This experience demonstrates that even in a poor, war-torn environment the right policy and regulatory framework can lead to rapid rollout of competitive wireless services.
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2006 Information and Communications for Development (IC4D): Global Trends and Policies
Author:
Global Information and Communication Technologies
Department and the Development Economics Data Group of the World Bank Group
Source:
World Bank, 2006.
This study is a World Bank flagship publication addressing the critical role being
played by information and communication technologies (ICT) in economic development.
It provides a global overview of ICT trends and policies in developing countries,
covering issues such as financing infrastructure, the importance of public-private
partnerships and effective competition to extending access, using ICT in doing business
and formulating national e-strategies.
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Financing Information and Communication Infrastructure Needs in the Developing World:
Public and Private Roles
Author:
Global Information and Communication Technologies Department
Source:
World Bank working paper No. 65, November 2005
This report that emphasizes the role of public-private partnerships to ensure that
more people in the developing world can access modern tools of communication. The
report suggests that considerable progress has been made in narrowing the digital
divide over the last ten years, but much remains to be done. The report calls on
governments to utilize their roles as consumer of information and communications
services as well as providers of other utility services to leverage rollout. It
also discusses a number of innovative subsidy and investment models that have extended
access to the previously unserved. The report notes the relatively small role of
the donor community in terms of overall financing, but describes a number of cases
where donors have leveraged and catalyzed private flows to meet rollout objectives.
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Mobile License Renewal: What Are the Issues? What is at Stake?
Author:
Boutheina Guermazi and Isabel Neto
Source:
Global Information and Communication Technologies Department
paper, the World Bank, June 2005
This paper provides an overview of mobile license renewal issues covering the legal
regime of license renewal, the renewal process, the non-renewal context and the
changes in licensing conditions including spectrum implications of the renewal process.
It draws best practices that started to emerge in recent renewal practices, to ensure
that the renewal process leads to the best outcome for all stakeholders.
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Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa
Author:
Pierre Guislain, Mavis A. Ampah, Laurent Besancon, Cecile
Niang, and Alexandre Serot
Source:
This paper outlines a strategy for information and communication technologies (ICT)
development in Sub-Saharan Africa that will further the reform agenda to facilitate
deployment of ICT infrastructure, and encourage the development community to support
African governments in this regard. The strategy is composed of three pillars: the
core reform agenda (market liberalization, regulation, capacity building, privatization,
and postal sector reform), addressing market failures (rural access, national backbone,
and post-conflict countries), and ICT for development applications (e-commerce,
e-government, and civil society applications). To make the case for sector reform,
t he report reviews the benefits of telecommunications reforms in the region
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