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Telecommunications-Related Services: Market Access, Deeper Integration and the WTO

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  • Braga, Carlos A.P.
  • Fink, Carsten
  • Hoekman, Bernard

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Liberalization and regulatory reform of telecom markets has emerged as a high profile policy issue. This paper analyzes how the multilateral system under the World Trade Organization can help developing countries in promoting their own information infrastructures. We focus on a specific "regime" issue that has attracted increasing attention in recent years: the extent to which the WTO should pursue a "deeper integration" agenda, using telecommunications and activities that rely heavily on telecommunications as a specific case. Die Liberalisierung und Reform der Telekommunikationsmärkte ist zu einem wichtigen politischen Thema geworden. Dieser Beitrag analysiert, wie das multilaterale System - unter der Welthandelsorganisation - Entwicklungsländern bei der Förderung ihrer eigenen Informations-Infrastruktur helfen kann. Wir konzentrieren uns auf eine spezifische "Regime"-Frage, die in den letzten Jahren zunehmend Aufmerksamkeit erregt hat: In welchem Maße die WTO ein Programm der "tieferen Integration" verfolgen sollte, das Telekommunikation als spezifischen Fall betrachtet.

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  • Braga, Carlos A.P. & Fink, Carsten & Hoekman, Bernard, 2002. "Telecommunications-Related Services: Market Access, Deeper Integration and the WTO," Discussion Paper Series 26288, Hamburg Institute of International Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:hwwadp:26288
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.26288
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    International Relations/Trade;

    JEL classification:

    • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
    • F02 - International Economics - - General - - - International Economic Order and Integration
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications

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