(Latest update - 17.3.2008)
Document: ''Bandwidth Driven Growth: Policy Essentials for Next Generation Development''1
Author: 
Prof. Mark Jamison (117 Kb), Public Utility Research Center Director, of the Florida University (U.S.A.)
Date: March 2008
Summary: The author examines how ICTs, and broadband in particular broadband, affect economic growth and the regulatory policies that promote this development. The author begins by describing how ICT is essential for developing a nation, drawing lessons from research and from practical experience. Empirical research tells us that ICT investment is a significant engine for economic growth and that the effective application of ICT improves productivity. But these technologies are ever changing, so it is important to have a strong foundation of public policies that allow dynamic change while constraining risk from policy changes. The author explains how the development and usefulness of telecommunications depend on institutions and legal frameworks that allow competition on the merits, provide stability while also adapting to new realities, limit market power and opportunism, and overcome the information asymmetries that are inherent in infrastructure sectors. The author then describes the essential instruments of regulation; how regulation is part of a larger system of policy making that makes it possible for customers to receive the efficient telecommunications services that they desire; and the challenges for creating, maintaining, and adapting the regulatory system.
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1 This study, including its presuppositions and conclusions, is the exclusive responsibility of its authors and does not necessarily represent or is in any way binding upon the position of ANACOM.
