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Chapter 1. Introduction
William H. Melody

Section 1 - Affordability and Use

Chapter 2. Improving Affordability of Telecommunications: Cross-fertilisation between the developed and the developing world
WDR0708Claire Milne

Chapter 3. Telecom Use on a Shoestring: Expenditure and perceptions of affordability amongst the financially constrained
Avanti Moonesinghe, Harsha de Silva, Neluka Silva & Ayoma Abeysuriya

Chapter 4. Variations in Expenditure on Communications in Developing Countries: A synthesis of the evidence from Albania, Mexico, Nepal and South Africa (2000-2003)
Sebastian Ureta

Chapter 5. ICT Usage and its Impact on Profitability of SMEs: A case of eight African countries
Steve Esselaar, Christoph Stork, Ali Ndiwalana & Mariama Deen-Swarray

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Title: Diversifying Participation in Network Development: Case studies and research from WDR Research Cycle 3

Editors: Amy Mahan and William H. Melody

Document date: September 2007

Pages: 230

Section 2 - Models to Extend Participation in Network Development

Chapter 6. An Investigation of the Replicability of a Microfinance Approach for Extending Telecom Access to Marginal Customers
Malathy Knight-John, Ayesha Zainudeen & Abu-Saeed Khan

Chapter 7. Smart Subsidies - Getting the Conditions Right: The experience of expanding rural telecoms in Nepal
Harsha de Silva & Ratna Kaji Tuladhar

Chapter 8. Microtelcos in Latin America and the Caribbean
Hernan Galperin & Bruce Girard

Chapter 9. Research and Education Network in Ghana: Promoting ICT in developing countries through research cooperation
Reza Tadayoni & Knud Erik Skouby

Section 3 - Regulatory and Information Practices

Chapter 10. Benchmarking National Telecom Regulatory Authority Websites of the Asia-Pacific Region
Chanuka Wattegama

Chapter 11. An Institutional and Practical Evaluation of URSEC - Uruguay’s Communication Regulator - and its Relationship with Citizens
Gustavo Gómez & Amy Mahan

Chapter 12. Regional Regulation of Telecom Markets in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Andrew Barendse

Chapter 13. Multinational Operators in African Mobile Markets
Ewan Sutherland

Chapter 14. Privatisation, Regulation and Investment: A case study of the telecom regulatory environment (TRE) and investment in Guyana
Samuel Braithwaite

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