Opening up telecommunications to competition and mena integration in the world economy

Journal of International Development

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 931-955

  Rossotto, Carlo Maria ^a   Sekkat, Khalid ^b   Varoudakis, Aristomene ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); INVESTMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EID: 27244433301     PISSN: 09541748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1185     Document Type: Article

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