This paper compares the regulatory incentives created by government policies aimed at promoting the transition to digital TV in the US, France, and the UK. It argues that US policies have aggravated coordination problems and even created incentives for terrestrial broadcasters to retard the...

This study analyses the cost of a low-volume basket of mobile services across a sample of Latin American countries, and contrasts these results with standard income and poverty indicators. The main goal is to establish how affordable mobile services are for the poor. Three general findings...

This article explores the growth of the information workforce in the developing world, and presents a framework to explain the occupational shift to information-related jobs. The model includes economic variables, such as industrialization and division of labour, and political variables, such as...