Ebook: Liberalisation and universal access to basic services : telecommunications, water and sanitation, financial services, and electricity.
Author: OECD
- Tags: Public utilities -- Government policy, Telecommunication policy, Financial services industry -- Government policy, Organisation de coopération et de développement économique, Banque mondiale, Services publics -- Politique gouvernementale, Télécommunications -- Politique gouvernementale, Services financiers -- Politique gouvernementale, Öffentliche Aufgaben, Liberalisierung, Deregulierung, Öffentliche Dienstleistung, Entwicklungsländer, Accord général sur le commerce des services (1994), Ac
- Series: OECD trade policy studies.
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: OECD
- City: Entwicklungsländer, Paris, Paris <2005>, Paris, France), Washington
- Language: English
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Building on a OECD/World Bank seminar, this volume explores whether and how trade liberalization can contribute to achieving universal service goals and the types of complementary policies required. It focuses on experiences in four sectors: telecommunications, water and sanitation, financial services, and electricity. A horizontal assessment also helps determine how far the current services negotiations in the WTO, Read more...