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Book Networks  Infrastructure  and the New Task for Regulation

Download or read book Networks Infrastructure and the New Task for Regulation written by Werner Sichel and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores public policy and economic issues in regulating telecommunication services and network systems

Book American Regulatory Federalism and Telecommunications Infrastructure

Download or read book American Regulatory Federalism and Telecommunications Infrastructure written by Paul E. Teske and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During this era of construction of the information superhighway, this volume presents a prudent analysis of the pros and cons of continuing state regulation of telecommunications. While interested parties either attack or defend state regulation, careful scholarly analysis is required to strike the appropriate balance of regulatory federalism. Focusing on regulation in the 1990s, it uses a positive political economy perspective to analyze enduring state-federal conflicts and to weigh the justifications and explanations for continuing state telecommunications regulation, or for changing its structure. It also considers normative concerns and makes recommendations about how to improve telecommunications policy. Seriously concerned with assessing the problems surrounding cost burdens for different categories of consumers, market entry for different firms, economic growth and the information infrastructure, global competitiveness, and control over information, this volume attempts to provide answers to the following specific questions: * How are states regulating telecommunications in the brave new world of global markets, fiber optics, and digital technology? * Do states vary significantly in their regulatory models? * How are the politics of state and federal regulation different? * Would a different federal-state relationship better serve national telecommunications goals in the future? To tackle these critical questions, the scholarly perspectives of economists, lawyers, political scientists, and telecommunications consultants and practitioners are employed.

Book Deregulation of Network Industries

Download or read book Deregulation of Network Industries written by Sam Peltzman and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains four papers which discuss deregulation of specific service industries and question the progress of and obstacles to regulatory reform.

Book Reforming Infrastructure

Download or read book Reforming Infrastructure written by Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.

Book The Global Information Infrastructure

Download or read book The Global Information Infrastructure written by Al Gore and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working Paper Series

Download or read book Working Paper Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Regulatory Reform of Railways in Russia

    Book Details:
  • Author : European Conference of Ministers of Transport
  • Publisher : OECD Publishing
  • Release : 2004-05-11
  • ISBN : 9282123111
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Regulatory Reform of Railways in Russia written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report, some of the world's leading experts in rail regulation examine the restructuring of the sector, focusing on tariff reform and the introduction of competition in one of the world's largest rail networks.

Book Political Accountability and Regulatory Performance in Infrastructure Industries

Download or read book Political Accountability and Regulatory Performance in Infrastructure Industries written by Farid Gasmi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this paper is to empirically explore the relationship between the quality of political institutions and the performance of regulation, an issue that has recently occupied much of the policy debate on the effectiveness of infrastructure industry reforms. Taking the view that political accountability is a key factor that links political structures and regulatory processes, the authors investigate, for the case of telecommunications, its impact on the performance of regulation in two time-series-cross-sectional data sets on 29 developing countries and 23 industrial countries covering the period 1985-99. In addition to confirming some well documented results on the positive role of regulatory governance in infrastructure industries, the authors provide empirical evidence on the impact of the quality of political institutions and their modes of functioning on regulatory performance. The analysis of the data sets shows that the (positive) effect of political accountability on the performance of regulation is stronger in developing countries. An important policy implication of this finding is that future reforms in these countries should give due attention to the development of politically accountable systems.

Book MCSE Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure Design Study Guide

Download or read book MCSE Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure Design Study Guide written by Brad Price and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's the book you need to prepare for the Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network Infrastructure exam (70-297). This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide" designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides: Clear and concise information on designing an Active Directory network infrastructure Practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a testing engine and electronic flashcards for your Palm You'll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including: Creating the Conceptual Design by Gathering and Analyzing Business and Technical Requirements Creating the Logical Design for an Active Directory Infrastructure Creating the Logical Design for a Network Services Infrastructure Creating the Physical Design for an Active Directory and Network Infrastructure

Book MCSE Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure Design Exam Notes

Download or read book MCSE Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure Design Exam Notes written by Robert R. King and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-02-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approach the new MCSE 2000 exam with added confidence by reviewing with MCSE Exam Notes: Windows 2000 Network Design. Not a cram guide or cheat sheet, this innovative review guide provides objective-by-objective coverage of all the material you need to know for the exam, singling out critical information, outlining necessary procedures, identifying exam essentials, and providing sample questions. It's the perfect companion piece to the MCSE: Windows 2000 Network Design Study Guide.

Book The Changing Nature of Telecommunications Information Infrastructure

Download or read book The Changing Nature of Telecommunications Information Infrastructure written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-04-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancement of telecommunications and information infrastructure occurs largely through private investment. The government affects the rate and direction of this progress through regulation and public investment. This book presents a range of positions and perspectives on those two classes of policy mechanism, providing a succinct analysis followed by papers prepared by experts in telecommunications policy and applications.

Book Regulation of Network Utilities

Download or read book Regulation of Network Utilities written by Claude Henry and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by academics and regulators working in the field, the papers in this collection explore the issues surrounding regulation from a detailed, case study-based perspective.

Book Putting the Information Infrastructure to Work

Download or read book Putting the Information Infrastructure to Work written by United States. Information Infrastructure Task Force. Committee on Applications and Technology and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1994 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interconnection of computer networks, telecommunications services, and applications, the National Information Infrastructure (NII) can open up new vistas and profoundly change much of American life. This report explores some of the opportunities and obstacles to the use of the NII by people and organizations. The goal is to express how improvements in the technical foundation upon which all modern communications rests can benefit all Americans by focusing on the uses of the NII and the benefits to be derived by applications of advanced computing and communications technologies. This document describes how the evolving NII can: enhance the competitiveness of our manufacturing base; increase speed and efficiency of electronic commerce; improve health care delivery and control costs; promote development and accessibility of quality education and lifelong learning; improve effectiveness of environmental monitoring and assessing human impacts upon the earth; sustain the role of libraries as agents of democratic and equal access to information; and provide government services to the public faster, more responsively, and more efficiently. In addition to articulating a national vision that can serve as a framework for discussion and dialogue, a second goal is to improve public policy-making, to identify critical barriers, enablers, and the tools of government action most effective in each of these areas. In this way, the benefits of government activities in support of the NII can be maximized, while minimizing unintended or undesirable consequences. Several themes emerge: equity of access; pursuit of demonstrations and pilot projects; standards setting process; privacy and communications security; training and support; identification of long-term research and development priorities; and performance measurements to assess both public and private investments and experiments. It is hoped that careful consideration of the policy questions raised here will both facilitate the development of the NII and guide its evolution so that it best meets public purposes. (MAS)

Book Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa

Download or read book Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa written by Natalija Gelvanovska and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existing telecommunications infrastructure in the Middle East and North Africa MENA suffers from various regulatory and market bottlenecks that are hampering the growth of the Internet in most countries and related access to information and to potential new job sources.

Book Infrastructure Delivery

Download or read book Infrastructure Delivery written by Ashoka Mody and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IFC Lessons of Experience Paper No. 3. Describes the International Finance Corporation's (IFC's) 20 years of leasing experience in developing countries and assesses the developmental impact of leasing. The IFC has invested in leasing companies in more than half of the developing countries that have a leasing industry today.

Book Resilience in Energy  Infrastructure  and Natural Resources Law

Download or read book Resilience in Energy Infrastructure and Natural Resources Law written by Catherine Banet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of severe and sometimes catastrophic disruptive events has been rapidly increasing. Extreme weather events including floods, wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters have become both more frequent and more severe, whilst events such as the COVID-19 pandemic represent a global threat to public health with huge economic effects that recovery packages tried to address. These disruptive events, alone and in combination, have dramatic consequences on nature, human life, and the economy, calling for urgent action to mitigate their causes and adapt to their impacts. In response to discourses of collapsology and end-of-growth theories, this monograph offers an analytical approach to developing legal responses that can help ensure the needs of present and future generations can be met through energy systems, infrastructure development, and natural resources management in these times of disruption. 'Resilience' is, therefore, seen as a common framework for the interpretation and development of energy, infrastructure, and natural resources law. With a mix of thematic chapters and case studies from multiple jurisdictions, Resilience in Energy, Infrastructure, and Natural Resources Law maps and assesses legal responses to disruptive nature-based events, and examines possible legal pathways for more sustainable outcomes, based on its engagement with this concept of 'resilience' and social-ecological thinking.