Telecommunications and Economic Development

from the Table of Contents: Preface to the Second Edition; List of Abbreviations; An Introductory Perspective: The Role of Telecommunications in Economic Development; A Perspective on Technology and Costs; Sector Organization, Management, and Financing; Macroeconomic Analysis of Benefits: Aggregate Correlation Analysis; Structural Economic Analysis; Location and Communication; Transport, Communication, and Energy; Microeconomic Analysis of Benefits: Price Change and Best-Alternative Estimates of Consumer Surplus; Expenditure Method Estimates of Consumer Surplus; Telephone Access and Use: Characteristics of Telephone Subscribers; Use of Business and Residential Telephones; Use of Public Call Office Telephones; Telecommunications Tariff Policy: An Introduction to Tariff Policy; Tariff Policy for Economic Efficiency; Tariff Policy in Practice; Mobilizing Resources and Promoting Efficiency. Alternative Approaches: Restructuring the Telecommunications Sector; Appendixes: Applications of Telecommunications for the Delivery of Social Sciences; Posts and Telecommunications as an Integrated Communications Sector; A Survey of Rural Public Call Offices in Costa Rica; Shadow Pricing for Telecommunications; World Bank Loans and Credits; The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission Costing Methodology. Cost Allocation Categories; References; Index; Tables; Figures; Examples; Boxes;