Market-oriented reforms of infrastructure in developing countries tend to focus primarily on commercially viable services in urban areas. Nevertheless, an increasing number of countries are beginning to experiment with extending the market paradigm to infrastructure services in rural areas that...

The information revolution has spread globally, but reliable data are not readily available on worldwide information infrastructure investment, growth, revenues, and breakdown between developed and developing countries. As a step towards overcoming this shortfall, in 1999 infoDev commissioned...