Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer ProtectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Communications Satellite Competition and Privatization Act of 1997
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer ProtectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
CIS Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
CIS Index to Publications of the United States Congress
Author: Congressional Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Four Confederated Bands of Pawnees
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Communications Satellite Competition and Privatization Act of 1997
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer ProtectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Debate on NATO Enlargement
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Reforming Infrastructure
Author: Ioannis Nicolaos KessidesPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
World Development Report 1994
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780195209921
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
World Development Report 1994 examines the link between infrastructure and development and explores ways in which developing countries can improve both the provision and the quality of infrastructure services. In recent decades, developing countries have made substantial investments in infrastructure, achieving dramatic gains for households and producers by expanding their access to services such as safe water, sanitation, electric power, telecommunications, and transport. Even more infrastructure investment and expansion are needed in order to extend the reach of services - especially to people living in rural areas and to the poor. But as this report shows, the quantity of investment cannot be the exclusive focus of policy. Improving the quality of infrastructure service also is vital. Both quantity and quality improvements are essential to modernize and diversify production, help countries compete internationally, and accommodate rapid urbanization. The report identifies the basic cause of poor past performance as inadequate institutional incentives for improving the provision of infrastructure. To promote more efficient and responsive service delivery, incentives need to be changed through commercial management, competition, and user involvement. Several trends are helping to improve the performance of infrastructure. First, innovation in technology and in the regulatory management of markets makes more diversity possible in the supply of services. Second, an evaluation of the role of government is leading to a shift from direct government provision of services to increasing private sector provision and recent experience in many countries with public-private partnerships is highlighting new ways to increase efficiency and expand services. Third, increased concern about social and environmental sustainability has heightened public interest in infrastructure design and performance.
The Global Positioning System
Author: Scott PacePublisher: RAND Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
A comprehensive assessment of the challenges and opportunities created by worldwide access to this revolutionary technology.
Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups
Author: Mark S. HammPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437929591
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.