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The agenda includes an expansion of the tax base to reduce dependency on oil, an initiative to increase competition in media and telecommunications, and a constitutional change that will permit the state-owned oil company Pemex to enter into joint ventures with foreign firms.
In reality, burning fossil fuels over the past 150 years has enabled us to be free to create and innovate an amazingly richer world of antibiotics, telecommunications, and computers.
Consider the telecommunications industry in developing countries more generally.
For example, nearly $200 million provided by the World Bank and other donors to Ghana for telecommunications development in a 1988 development project had almost no measurable impact.
Regulatory policies have often been unfriendly to digital development and innovation, even where traditional telecommunications have been liberalized.
A recent survey of telecommunications regulatory agencies conducted by The World Bank found that 23 of the 38 poor countries that responded require ISPs to obtain formal regulatory approval before they are allowed to operate.
Indeed, creating a regulatory agency is often a crucial component of successful telecommunications reforms, which typically start by privatizing the state-owned monopoly telecom company.
Thus, even when regulatory agencies are crucial to encouraging competition in telecommunications, regulators are often given control over areas where there is no particular reason for government oversight.
China-Africa trade alone increased from $10 billion in 2000 to $107 billion in 2008, and billions of dollars are being invested in oil production, mining, transportation, electricity generation and transmission, telecommunications, and other infrastructure.
Improved governance, higher food production, increased inter-regional trade, debt cancellation, better use of official development assistance (ODA), and thriving telecommunications and housing markets have helped as well.
With the right regulatory environment and sufficient financing, renewable low-carbon technologies could do for the energy sector what mobile phones have done for telecommunications.
Regulatory institutions – such as bank supervisory agencies and bodies that oversee the telecommunications, food, and energy industries – play a vital role by maintaining the always-delicate balance between “free” markets and the actions of elected governments and legislatures.
The program, designed in collaboration with global telecommunications providers, universities, and NGOs, initially covered 30 rural communities, and connected some 35,000 people to health-care professionals through a staffed call center.
And with the advent of digital technology and instant telecommunications, the Third Industrial Revolution, playing out over the past five decades, has connected the planet and shrunk time and space.
Governments must double or even triple investment in energy R&D, while ensuring that energy start-ups have the same access to finance as, say, telecommunications or pharmaceutical companies.
World-changing innovations – in transport, telecommunications, medicine, and much else – are almost always the result of taking calculated risks and balancing these with the benefits that new technologies can provide.
European policymakers should also guarantee non-discriminatory wholesale access to communications networks, and that consumers and businesses have a range of choices for telecommunications and online services.
On the back of the new computer and telecommunications technology, a giant market for derivative instruments was built.
As soon as Soviet power in Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989, those countries could switch to the superior Western technologies in computers, telecommunications, transport, pharmaceuticals, and many other areas.
Moreover, Africa’s economies have already begun to diversify, placing less emphasis on natural resources relative to thriving tourism, agriculture, telecommunications, banking, and retail sectors.
In 1900, the world did not have ready access to electricity, automobiles and aviation, or telecommunications.
What began as esoteric explorations of the workings of the physical world – the nature of electromagnetism and the atomic structure of matter, for example – became, in the hands of inventors and innovators, telecommunications, new drugs, medical imaging and devices, nuclear power, the computer chip, and the Internet.
The basic lessons of US success should be recognized: macroeconomic stability; budgetary prudence; global trade, competition and de-monopolization in telecommunications and finance; and an active industrial policy geared towards a knowledge-based economy, building upon science, research and development, information technology, and higher education.
Construction, banking, telecommunications, tourism, and traditional manufacturing represent a significant share of the region’s private-sector economy.
While telecommunications is something of an exception in this sense, even its development is hampered by government regulation.
Governments must also ensure that networks between banks and telecommunications companies are interoperable; otherwise, widespread use of mobile phones for financial services and payments would be impossible.
Finally, governments must implement regulations that strike a balance between protecting investors and consumers, and giving banks, retailers, and financial-technology and telecommunications companies room to compete and innovate.
Like computers and advanced telecommunications, it could become affordable to the majority in developed countries.
Finally, the European Commission should be allowed to administer funds directly in countries that are under conditionality, mainly to finance large infrastructure projects – ranging from transport to telecommunications to energy.
Now that major airlines have flights to and from the island, Cuban-Americans and any other tourists can travel there freely, which means that there are investment opportunities in hospitality, telecommunications, transportation, retail banking, and other related industries.
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