Research Catalog

Title

Small states, smart solutions : improving connectivity and increasing the effectiveness of public services / Edgardo M. Favaro, editor.

Publication

Washington DC : World Bank, c2008.

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Additional Authors

Favaro, Edgardo.

Description

xvi, 290 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

The case studies focus on specific attempts made by a number of small states to overcome the handicaps of their size and isolation and take advantage of growing opportunities for integration with their neighbors and with the rest of the world. Two policy issues have been of prime importance in that effort: how to reduce the costs and increase the effectiveness of public goods and services, and how to improve, and reduce the costs of, connectivity with the rest of the world. This study takes a different tack. It focuses on two policy areas: (a) the use of outsourcing of government functions as a means of reducing the costs and improving the quality of some public goods and services; and (b) policies, institutions, and regulations designed to harness the power of information and telecommunications technology (ICT) to reduce the costs and improve the quality of connectivity with the rest of the world.

Series Statement

Directions in development. Public sector governance

Uniform Title

Directions in development. Public sector governance.

Subject

• Public contracts > States, Small
• Electronic government information > States, Small

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Banking supervision in OECS member countries / Edgardo Favaro and Frits van Beek -- Banking supervision in the CFA Franc countries / Christian Brachet -- The regional court systems in the organization of Eastern Caribbean states and the Caribbean / Dennis Byron and Maria Dakolias -- Telecommunications regulation in the Eastern Caribbean / Edgardo Favaro and Brian Winter -- E-government in Cape Verde / Edgardo Favaro, Samia Melhem, and Brian Winter -- Impact of ICT on university education in small island states : the case of the University of the South Pacific / Ron Duncan and James McMaster -- From monopoly to competition : reform of Samoa's telecommunications sector / Edgardo Favaro, Naomi Halewood, and Carlo Maria Rossotto -- Exploiting tender processes for budget reform in small countries : the case of Samoa / Geoff Dixon -- Overview of the studies of economic growth / Edgardo Favaro and David Peretz.

ISBN

• 9780821374603
• 0821374605
• 9780821374610 (electronic)
• 0821374613 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2008003718

OCLC

190850765

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library