Research Catalog

Title

Telecommunications and economic development / Robert J. Saunders, Jeremy J. Warford, Björn Wellenius.

Author

Saunders, Robert J.

Publication

Baltimore : Published for the World Bank [by] the Johns Hopkins University Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Warford, Jeremy J.
• Wellenius, Bjorn.

Description

xviii, 467 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Telecommunication > Developing countries
• Telecommunication > Mathematical models

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-454) and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. An Introductory Perspective. Ch. 1. The Role of Telecommunications in Economic Development. Ch. 2. A Perspective on Technology and Costs. Ch. 3. Sector Organization, Management, and Financing -- Pt. II. Macroeconomic Analysis of Benefits. Ch. 4. Aggregate Correlation Analysis. Ch. 5. Structural Economic Analysis. Ch. 6. Location and Communication. Ch. 7. Transport, Communication, and Energy Consumption -- Pt. III. Microeconomic Analysis of Benefits. Ch. 8. Price Change and Best-Alternative Estimates of Consumer Surplus. Ch. 9. Expenditure Method Estimates of Consumer Surplus -- Pt. IV. Telephone Access and Use. Ch. 10. Characteristics of Telephone Subscribers. Ch. 11. Use of Business and Residential Telephones. Ch. 12. Use of Public Call Office Telephones -- Pt. V. Telecommunications Tariff Policy. Ch. 13. An Introduction to Tariff Policy. Ch. 14. Tariff Policy for Economic Efficiency. Ch. 15. Tariff Policy in Practice.
• Pt. VI. Mobilizing Resources and Promoting Efficiency: Alternative Approaches. Ch. 16. Restructuring the Telecommunications Sector -- Appendix A. Applications of Telecommunications for the Delivery of Social Sciences -- Appendix B. Posts and Telecommunications as an Integrated Communications Sector -- Appendix C. A Survey of Rural Public Call Offices in Costa Rica -- Appendix D. Shadow Pricing for Telecommunications -- Appendix E. World Bank Loans and Credits -- Appendix F. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission Costing Methodology: Cost Allocation Categories.

ISBN

080184665X

LCCN

93040704

OCLC

• 29219749
• ocm29219749

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries