Does Privatization Deliver? Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru

Galdo, Virgilio; Torero, Máximo; Chong, Alberto

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1818735

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“…For example, Svensson and Yanagizawa (2009) investigate the impact of price dissemination via radio and find large increases in farm-gate prices for maize (around 15%) in Uganda. Similarly large effects are suggested by preliminary research in Peru (Beuerrmann, 2015;Chong et al, 2005) and the Philippines (Labonne and Chase, 2009). Others find much smaller (Goyal, 2010) or no effects (Fafchamps and Minten, 2012;Mitra et al, 2011).…”

Section: Icts and Farmers' Salessupporting

confidence: 64%

A text message away: ICTs as a tool to improve food security

Nakasone

Torero

2016

Agricultural Economics

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The growing use of ICTs around the world, particularly cellular phone technology, provides a significant development opportunity. Under certain situations, ICTs can improve rural households’ agricultural production, farm profitability, job opportunities, adoption of healthier practices, and risk management. All these effects have the potential to increase wellbeing and food security in rural areas of developing countries. Several challenges to effectively scaling up the use of ICTs for development remain, however. Taking advantage of the opportunities provided by ICTs depends on increased connectivity of marginalized population groups, the content and usefulness of the information provided through ICTs, and the capacity of households in rural areas to understand and act on the information that they receive. We need innovative ways to bring together the public and private sectors to ensure that the three Cs (connectivity, content, and capacity) are addressed as a whole.

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Section: Icts and Farmers' Salessupporting

confidence: 64%

A text message away: ICTs as a tool to improve food security

Nakasone

Torero

2016

Agricultural Economics

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“…El impacto de la privatización y de las reformas sectoriales en el bienestar de los usuarios ha sido un tema recurrente que ha atraído el interés de los investigadores desde la década pasada. Más recientemente, Chong et al (2005) presentan nueva evidencia sobre un aspecto de la privatización que había pasado desapercibido. En efecto, los autores toman como referencia lo que denominan «un cuasi experimento natural», derivado de una obligación establecida en el contrato de concesión de las telecomunicaciones en el Perú en el año 1994: la empresa concesionaria quedó obligada a instalar y operar teléfonos públicos en 1 526 centros poblados rurales, distribuidos en todo el territorio.…”

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Balance de la investigación académica en regulación de los servicios públicos

Pérez-Reyes

Távara

2009

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El artículo presenta un breve balance de las investigaciones realizadas recientemente en el ámbito de la regulación de los servicios públicos. El análisis se concentra en las industrias de redes (telecomunicaciones,energía, transporte, agua y saneamiento) y se limita a las publicaciones realizadas desde 2004 en adelante, las cuales, de alguna manera, se refieren a la experiencia peruana. Este recuento pone en evidencia la importante producción bibliográfica sobre el tema, destacando en número y calidad los diversos estudios realizados sobre la regulación en los sectores energía y telecomunicaciones. También se exponen las principales contribuciones realizadas fuera del país, referidas al progreso logrado en la identificación de las mejores prácticas de regulación y de los principios básicos que han orientado los sistemas institucionales adoptados en algunos países, lo cual facilita la evaluación en otros contextos nacionales. Finalmente, el balance da cuenta de loscambios sustantivos en la importancia relativa de algunos temas. Así, la privatización ha dejado de ocupar un lugar central en la agenda de políticas públicas y más bien ha pasado a un segundo plano en las prioridades de los investigadores. En contraste, los problemas vinculados a la expansión de las redes y al acceso a los servicios, así como la concesión de proyectos de infraestructura y el diseño de esquemas de cofinanciamiento público-privado, son los temas predominantes en las agendas de investigación y en las políticas públicas, respectivamente.---This paper provides a survey review of the literature on regulation of utilities with a focus on network industries (telecommunications, electricity, transport infrastructure, water and sanitation). It is limited to the publications realized from 2004 onwards which, somehow, refer to the Peruvian experience. The survey provides detailed evidence on the significant bibliographic production on this topic, underscoring the quantity and quality of various studies on regulation, mainly on energy and telecommunications. Also it includes some contributions published abroad, which refer to the progress that has been achieved in identifying the best practices of regulation as well as the principles that have shaped the institutional designs in some countries, providing new benchmarks for evaluation in developing nations. Likewise, the assessment reveals some substantial changes in the relative importance of specific issues. Privatization no longer occupies a central role in the public policy agenda, and has also lost attraction within the research communities. In contrast, network expansion and access to network services as well as the design of public-private partnerships and financial mechanisms for infrastructure development, have turned into the key issues of the agendas for research and public policy, respectively.

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“…Increase in the per capita income was observed in Peru up to 13% due to the usage of mobile phone technology. Dissemination of information by using telecommunication services has positive impact on the income of farming community (Chong et al, 2005). In Bangladesh, usage of mobile phone provides the opportunity to increase the productivity and reduce the inequality in demographics (Islam and Gronlund, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%