Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Telecommunications Regulators in Sub-Saharan Africa
This report develops an assessment framework and decision-making tool that, it is hoped, will facilitate evaluations of the effectiveness of telecommunications regulators in sub-Saharan Africa by the regulators themselves, World Bank staff, other i...
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AUCTIONS BOARD MEMBERS CENTRAL BANK CODE OF ETHICS CODES OF CONDUCT COMMERCIAL LAW COMPETITION POLICY COMPETITIVE MARKETS COMPETITORS COMPLAINTS CONFLICTS OF INTEREST CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS CONNECTIVITY CONSULTATION CONSULTATION PROCEDURES CONSULTATIONS DECISION-MAKING PROCESS DECREES DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DISPUTE RESOLUTION DRAFT REGULATIONS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC FACTORS ECONOMIC REGULATION EFFECTIVE REGULATION ENFORCEMENT POWERS EXISTING GOVERNMENT FINAL DECISION FINAL REPORT FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FINANCIAL MARKETS GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS GOVERNMENT POLICY IMPACT OF REGULATION INCOME INFORMAL MEETINGS INTRODUCTION OF COMPETITION JUDICIAL REVIEW JURISDICTION LEGAL BASIS LEGAL DISPUTES LEGAL FRAMEWORK LEGAL INSTRUMENT LEGAL INSTRUMENTS LEGAL TEXT LEGAL TEXTS LEGISLATION LICENSEE LICENSEES LITIGATION MARKET PLAYERS MARKET SHARE MARKET SHARES MARKET STRUCTURE MINISTER MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS MINISTERS MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLY NATURE OF REGULATION NETWORK OPERATORS OUTPUT OUTSOURCING PENETRATION RATES POLICY DEVELOPMENT POLICY OBJECTIVES POLICY STATEMENTS POLITICAL SYSTEM POTENTIAL INVESTORS PRICE CAPS PRICE REGULATION PRIVACY PRIVACY RIGHTS PRIVATE COMPANIES PRIVATE INVESTMENT PRIVATE INVESTORS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC CONSULTATION PUBLIC DOMAIN PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC MEETINGS PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION HANDBOOK REGULATION POLICY REGULATOR REGULATORS REGULATORY ACCOUNTABILITY REGULATORY ACTIVITIES REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY AGENCY REGULATORY AUTHORITY REGULATORY BODIES REGULATORY BODY REGULATORY CAPTURE REGULATORY CRITERIA REGULATORY DECISION REGULATORY DECISION-MAKING REGULATORY DECISIONS REGULATORY DESIGN REGULATORY EFFECTIVENESS REGULATORY EFFICIENCY REGULATORY ENTITY REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REGULATORY FUNCTIONS REGULATORY OBJECTIVES REGULATORY OFFICIALS REGULATORY POLICY REGULATORY PRACTICE REGULATORY PROCESSES REGULATORY STAFF REGULATORY SYSTEMS REPUTATION RETAIL TARIFFS REVOCATION OF LICENCES RIGHTS OF WAY SENIOR MANAGEMENT TARIFF REGULATION TARIFF REGULATIONS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES TELEPHONE LINES TRANSPARENCY TURNOVER UNIVERSAL ACCESS |
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AUCTIONS BOARD MEMBERS CENTRAL BANK CODE OF ETHICS CODES OF CONDUCT COMMERCIAL LAW COMPETITION POLICY COMPETITIVE MARKETS COMPETITORS COMPLAINTS CONFLICTS OF INTEREST CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS CONNECTIVITY CONSULTATION CONSULTATION PROCEDURES CONSULTATIONS DECISION-MAKING PROCESS DECREES DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DISPUTE RESOLUTION DRAFT REGULATIONS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC FACTORS ECONOMIC REGULATION EFFECTIVE REGULATION ENFORCEMENT POWERS EXISTING GOVERNMENT FINAL DECISION FINAL REPORT FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FINANCIAL MARKETS GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS GOVERNMENT POLICY IMPACT OF REGULATION INCOME INFORMAL MEETINGS INTRODUCTION OF COMPETITION JUDICIAL REVIEW JURISDICTION LEGAL BASIS LEGAL DISPUTES LEGAL FRAMEWORK LEGAL INSTRUMENT LEGAL INSTRUMENTS LEGAL TEXT LEGAL TEXTS LEGISLATION LICENSEE LICENSEES LITIGATION MARKET PLAYERS MARKET SHARE MARKET SHARES MARKET STRUCTURE MINISTER MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS MINISTERS MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLY NATURE OF REGULATION NETWORK OPERATORS OUTPUT OUTSOURCING PENETRATION RATES POLICY DEVELOPMENT POLICY OBJECTIVES POLICY STATEMENTS POLITICAL SYSTEM POTENTIAL INVESTORS PRICE CAPS PRICE REGULATION PRIVACY PRIVACY RIGHTS PRIVATE COMPANIES PRIVATE INVESTMENT PRIVATE INVESTORS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC CONSULTATION PUBLIC DOMAIN PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC MEETINGS PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION HANDBOOK REGULATION POLICY REGULATOR REGULATORS REGULATORY ACCOUNTABILITY REGULATORY ACTIVITIES REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY AGENCY REGULATORY AUTHORITY REGULATORY BODIES REGULATORY BODY REGULATORY CAPTURE REGULATORY CRITERIA REGULATORY DECISION REGULATORY DECISION-MAKING REGULATORY DECISIONS REGULATORY DESIGN REGULATORY EFFECTIVENESS REGULATORY EFFICIENCY REGULATORY ENTITY REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REGULATORY FUNCTIONS REGULATORY OBJECTIVES REGULATORY OFFICIALS REGULATORY POLICY REGULATORY PRACTICE REGULATORY PROCESSES REGULATORY STAFF REGULATORY SYSTEMS REPUTATION RETAIL TARIFFS REVOCATION OF LICENCES RIGHTS OF WAY SENIOR MANAGEMENT TARIFF REGULATION TARIFF REGULATIONS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES TELEPHONE LINES TRANSPARENCY TURNOVER UNIVERSAL ACCESS Attenborough, Nigel Koch, Gideon Maiorano, Federica Miller, Tim Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Telecommunications Regulators in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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This report develops an assessment
framework and decision-making tool that, it is hoped, will
facilitate evaluations of the effectiveness of
telecommunications regulators in sub-Saharan Africa by the
regulators themselves, World Bank staff, other institutions
and their consultants. The assessment framework has been
developed as part of a larger study in which the framework
was developed and then applied in three sub-Saharan African
countries, Mauritania, Uganda and South Africa. The
individual country assessments are attached to this report
as appendices. In the context of this framework, the
adoption of a broad and dynamic definition of effectiveness
or regulatory efficiency encompasses both the legal and
regulatory framework design and the extent to which it has
affected the regulator's influence on the sector, as
well as the implementation of the framework, regulatory
practice, the regulatory decisions taken and their outcomes.
The structure of the report is as follows. Section 2 sets
out the rationale for using the analytical framework.
Section 3 explains the framework's logic and the
assessment's role in it. A step-by-step instruction
guide to conducting assessments can be found in Section 4.
Background material for conducting assessments is laid out
in the following three sections: section 5 contains the
normative reference point of the assessment; section 6
covers the background data required together with the
detailed questionnaire to be used by the evaluator; section
7, provides a menu of options for corrective action which
can be used, following assessments, to choose possible
solutions to the impediments identified. Finally, Section 8
offers an illustration of how the framework might be used,
by examining the issue of licensing in the three sub-Saharan
African countries assessed. |
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Attenborough, Nigel Koch, Gideon Maiorano, Federica Miller, Tim |
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Attenborough, Nigel Koch, Gideon Maiorano, Federica Miller, Tim |
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Attenborough, Nigel |
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Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Telecommunications Regulators in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Telecommunications Regulators in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Telecommunications Regulators in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Telecommunications Regulators in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Telecommunications Regulators in Sub-Saharan Africa |
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framework for evaluating the effectiveness of telecommunications regulators in sub-saharan africa |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/19585715/framework-evaluating-effectiveness-telecommunications-regulators-sub-saharan-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19057 |
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okr-10986-190572021-04-23T14:03:50Z Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Telecommunications Regulators in Sub-Saharan Africa Attenborough, Nigel Koch, Gideon Maiorano, Federica Miller, Tim AUCTIONS BOARD MEMBERS CENTRAL BANK CODE OF ETHICS CODES OF CONDUCT COMMERCIAL LAW COMPETITION POLICY COMPETITIVE MARKETS COMPETITORS COMPLAINTS CONFLICTS OF INTEREST CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS CONNECTIVITY CONSULTATION CONSULTATION PROCEDURES CONSULTATIONS DECISION-MAKING PROCESS DECREES DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DISPUTE RESOLUTION DRAFT REGULATIONS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC FACTORS ECONOMIC REGULATION EFFECTIVE REGULATION ENFORCEMENT POWERS EXISTING GOVERNMENT FINAL DECISION FINAL REPORT FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FINANCIAL MARKETS GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS GOVERNMENT POLICY IMPACT OF REGULATION INCOME INFORMAL MEETINGS INTRODUCTION OF COMPETITION JUDICIAL REVIEW JURISDICTION LEGAL BASIS LEGAL DISPUTES LEGAL FRAMEWORK LEGAL INSTRUMENT LEGAL INSTRUMENTS LEGAL TEXT LEGAL TEXTS LEGISLATION LICENSEE LICENSEES LITIGATION MARKET PLAYERS MARKET SHARE MARKET SHARES MARKET STRUCTURE MINISTER MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS MINISTERS MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLY NATURE OF REGULATION NETWORK OPERATORS OUTPUT OUTSOURCING PENETRATION RATES POLICY DEVELOPMENT POLICY OBJECTIVES POLICY STATEMENTS POLITICAL SYSTEM POTENTIAL INVESTORS PRICE CAPS PRICE REGULATION PRIVACY PRIVACY RIGHTS PRIVATE COMPANIES PRIVATE INVESTMENT PRIVATE INVESTORS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC CONSULTATION PUBLIC DOMAIN PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC MEETINGS PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION HANDBOOK REGULATION POLICY REGULATOR REGULATORS REGULATORY ACCOUNTABILITY REGULATORY ACTIVITIES REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY AGENCY REGULATORY AUTHORITY REGULATORY BODIES REGULATORY BODY REGULATORY CAPTURE REGULATORY CRITERIA REGULATORY DECISION REGULATORY DECISION-MAKING REGULATORY DECISIONS REGULATORY DESIGN REGULATORY EFFECTIVENESS REGULATORY EFFICIENCY REGULATORY ENTITY REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REGULATORY FUNCTIONS REGULATORY OBJECTIVES REGULATORY OFFICIALS REGULATORY POLICY REGULATORY PRACTICE REGULATORY PROCESSES REGULATORY STAFF REGULATORY SYSTEMS REPUTATION RETAIL TARIFFS REVOCATION OF LICENCES RIGHTS OF WAY SENIOR MANAGEMENT TARIFF REGULATION TARIFF REGULATIONS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES TELEPHONE LINES TRANSPARENCY TURNOVER UNIVERSAL ACCESS This report develops an assessment framework and decision-making tool that, it is hoped, will facilitate evaluations of the effectiveness of telecommunications regulators in sub-Saharan Africa by the regulators themselves, World Bank staff, other institutions and their consultants. The assessment framework has been developed as part of a larger study in which the framework was developed and then applied in three sub-Saharan African countries, Mauritania, Uganda and South Africa. The individual country assessments are attached to this report as appendices. In the context of this framework, the adoption of a broad and dynamic definition of effectiveness or regulatory efficiency encompasses both the legal and regulatory framework design and the extent to which it has affected the regulator's influence on the sector, as well as the implementation of the framework, regulatory practice, the regulatory decisions taken and their outcomes. The structure of the report is as follows. Section 2 sets out the rationale for using the analytical framework. Section 3 explains the framework's logic and the assessment's role in it. A step-by-step instruction guide to conducting assessments can be found in Section 4. Background material for conducting assessments is laid out in the following three sections: section 5 contains the normative reference point of the assessment; section 6 covers the background data required together with the detailed questionnaire to be used by the evaluator; section 7, provides a menu of options for corrective action which can be used, following assessments, to choose possible solutions to the impediments identified. Finally, Section 8 offers an illustration of how the framework might be used, by examining the issue of licensing in the three sub-Saharan African countries assessed. 2014-07-29T22:01:25Z 2014-07-29T22:01:25Z 2004-04-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/19585715/framework-evaluating-effectiveness-telecommunications-regulators-sub-saharan-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19057 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research |