Liberalisation and universal access to basic services
Subtitle: telecommunications, water and sanitation, financial services, and electricity
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; World Bank
Series: OECD trade policy studies
Publisher: OECD; World Bank
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Paris; [Washington]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780821369005; 9789264028678
Subjects: Public utilities -- Government policy; Telecommunication policy; Financial services industry -- Government policy
Description: 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, under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, can aid the attainment of universal service goals.--Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references

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Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Telecommunications.; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier -- / by F.F. Tusubira; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier -- / by F.F. Tusubira -- / by Harsha Vardhana Singh -- pt. 2. Water and sanitation.; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier -- / by F.F. Tusubira -- / by Harsha Vardhana Singh -- pt. 2. Water and sanitation. -- / by Robin Simpson; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier -- / by F.F. Tusubira -- / by Harsha Vardhana Singh -- pt. 2. Water and sanitation. -- / by Robin Simpson -- / by Dale Whittington; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier -- / by F.F. Tusubira -- / by Harsha Vardhana Singh -- pt. 2. Water and sanitation. -- / by Robin Simpson -- / by Dale Whittington -- / by Miguel Solanes; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier -- / by F.F. Tusubira -- / by Harsha Vardhana Singh -- pt. 2. Water and sanitation. -- / by Robin Simpson -- / by Dale Whittington -- / by Miguel Solanes; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier -- / by F.F. Tusubira -- / by Harsha Vardhana Singh -- pt. 2. Water and sanitation. -- / by Robin Simpson -- / by Dale Whittington -- / by Miguel Solanes -- / by Stijn Claessens; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier -- / by F.F. Tusubira -- / by Harsha Vardhana Singh -- pt. 2. Water and sanitation. -- / by Robin Simpson -- / by Dale Whittington -- / by Miguel Solanes -- / by Stijn Claessens -- / by Mark Napier; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier -- / by F.F. Tusubira -- / by Harsha Vardhana Singh -- pt. 2. Water and sanitation. -- / by Robin Simpson -- / by Dale Whittington -- / by Miguel Solanes -- / by Stijn Claessens -- / by Mark Napier -- / by Bindu Ananth and Nachiket Mor -- pt. 4. Electricity.; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications. -- / by Patrick Xavier -- / by F.F. Tusubira -- / by Harsha Vardhana Singh -- pt. 2. Water and sanitation. -- / by Robin Simpson -- / by Dale Whittington -- / by Miguel Solanes -- / by Stijn Claessens -- / by Mark Napier -- / by Bindu Ananth and Nachiket Mor -- pt. 4. Electricity. -- / by Peter C. Evans; title: pt. 1. Telecommunications.-- / by Patrick Xavier-- / by F.F. Tusubira-- / by Harsha Vardhana Singh-- pt. 2. Water and sanitation.-- / by Robin Simpson-- / by Dale Whittington-- / by Miguel Solanes-- / by Stijn Claessens-- / by Mark Napier-- / by Bindu Ananth and Nachiket Mor-- pt. 4. Electricity.-- / by Peter C. Evans-- / by Romeo Pacudan