Investment policies and telecommunications regimes

Arbeitspapier

This paper looks at the role of the key international agreements in the process of liberalization of the telecommunications industry. We analyse in particular the role of the WTO agreement in furthering liberalization around the world, and the extent to which it provides protection for foreign investors. The analysis includes assessments of not only market access but also the treatment of property rights, rights of way, financial conditions and regulations as well as issues related to market structure and competition. Outstanding issues representing impediments of these agreements are also identified. The approach is to a large extent based on a comparison with other relevant international agreements, especially with NAFTA. The WTO agreement comes out of the analysis quite well. It is an important instrument of protecting and safeguarding market access for foreign investors even though, undoubtedly, several areas of the agreement will be subject to pressures for further negotiations.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: HWWA Discussion Paper ; No. 166

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; International Economic Order and Integration ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Telecommunications
• Thema: International Economic Order ; WTO ; NAFTA ; Trade Negotiations ; International Investment ; Telecommunications Services ; Telekommunikationspolitik ; Internationaler Dienstleistungsverkehr ; WTO-Regeln ; Telekommunikation ; Direktinvestition ; Investitionsgarantie ; Investitionspolitik ; Welt

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Drabek, Zdenek
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
• (wo): Hamburg
• (wann): 2002

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19328
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ