Liberalisation and Universal Access to Basic Services [electronic resource]: Telecommunications, Water and Sanitation, Financial Services, and Electricity /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The World Bank.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2006.
Building on a recent groundbreaking OECD/World Bank seminar, this volume explores whether and how trade liberalisation 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. The unique multi-sector perspective taken in this book, together with the national case studies, yield insights which can help countries promote their universal access goals. A horizontal assessment also helps determine how far the current services negotiations in the WTO, under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, can aid the attainment of universal service goals.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Uganda's Approach to Universal Access to Telecommunications -- India's Experience with Universal Service Obligations in Telecommunications -- Executive Summary -- Universal Access to Financial Services -- Provision of Financial Services in South Africa -- Regulatory Aspects of Universal Access to Financial Services in India -- Reflections on the Goal of Universal Access in the Water and Sanitation Sector -- Universal Access in the Water and Sanitation Sector -- Power Sector Liberalisation, the Poor and Multilateral Trade Commitments -- Efficiency, Equity and Liberalisation of Water Services in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Building on a recent groundbreaking OECD/World Bank seminar, this volume explores whether and how trade liberalisation 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. The unique multi-sector perspective taken in this book, together with the national case studies, yield insights which can help countries promote their universal access goals. A horizontal assessment also helps determine how far the current services negotiations in the WTO, under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, can aid the attainment of universal service goals.
Public utilities
Telecommunication policy.
Financial services industry

OECD Trade Policy Studies