Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
PART 1 Case Studies on Regional Solutions
Chapter 2 Banking Supervision in OECS Member Countries
Chapter 3 Banking Supervision in the CFA Franc Countries
Chapter 4 The Regional Court Systems in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and the Caribbean
PART 2 Cases Studies on ICT Regulation and Outsourcing
Chapter 5 Telecommunications Regulation in the Eastern Caribbean
Chapter 6 E-Government in Cape Verde
Chapter 7 Impact of ICT on University Education in Small Island States: The Case of the University of the South Pacific
Chapter 8 From Monopoly to Competition: Reform of Samoa’s Telecommunications Sector
Chapter 9 Exploiting Tender Processes for Budget Reform in Small Countries: The Case of Samoa
Appendix A Overview of the Studies of Economic Growth
Index
Figure 4.1 Rule of Law: World Bank Governance Indicators, 2005
Figure 4.2 Number of Judges per 100,000 Inhabitants, 2000
Figure 4.3 Clearance Rate for ECSC Court of Appeal: Civil and Criminal Cases
Figure 4.4 Clearance Rate for Civil Cases, 2002
Figure 4.5 Percentage Increase in the Number of Civil Cases Filed in ECSC High Court, 1967–2005
Figure 4.6 Salaries of Judges
Figure 4.7 Percentage Increase in the Number of Cases Filed: ECSC High Court and Court of Appeal Caseloads Compared with Those of the European Court of First Instance and European Court of Justice
Figure 5A.1 Telecommunications Share in GDP
Figure 6.1 Histogram: Cost in US$ of a Three-Minute Phone Call to the United States
Table 1.1 Ratio of Government Consumption and of Telecommunications to GDP in Small States and in Larger States
Table 1.2 Selected Indicators: Small States and Large States, 1986–2005
Table 3.1 CFA Franc Zones: Basic Data, 2005
Table 3.2 CFA Franc Zones: Net Foreign Position of Monetary Authorities
Table 3.3 CFA Franc Zone Banking Commissions: Regulatory Apparatus, Modus Operandi, and Powers
Table 3.4 CFA Franc Zones Regional Banking Commissions—Governance Structures
Table 3.5 UMOA and UMAC: Operational Norms and Prudential Framework
Table 3.6A Number of Banks in Compliance with Prudential Norms and Solvency Ratios (2004)
Table 3.6B Number of Banks in Compliance with Prudential Norms and Solvency Ratios (2004)
Table 4.1 Contributions to ECSC from OECS Member Countries
Table 4.2 Legislative Process for Changing the Constitution
Table 4.3 Trust Fund Contributions for CCJ
Table 4.4 Number of Cases Appealed to the Privy Council
Table 5.1 International Rates from OECS Countries
Table 5.2 Number of Telephone Subscribers and Internet Users in 2000
Table 5.3 Percentage Increase in Number of Phone Subscribers, 2000–04
Table 5A.1 Number of Phone Subscribers, 2004 and 2000
Table 6.1 Telecommunications Indicators
Table 8.1 Telecommunications Indicators for South Pacific Ocean Countries
Table 8.2 Chronology of Events, 1996–2006
Table 8.3 Number of Mobile-Phone Subscribers per 1,000 People in Samoa
Table 8.4 Telecommunications Indicators Pre- and Postreform
Table 8.5 Value of the Reform
Table 8A.1 The Demand for Telecom Services
Table 9.1 Current State versus Future State
Table 9.2 Analysis of Options
Table A.1 Telecommunications Regulation
Table A.1 Growth and Volatility
Table A.2 Growth and Volatility
Box 1.1 A Roster of Small States
Box 2.1 Banking Supervision in Central and West Africa and in the EMU
Box 2.2 Governance of the ECCB
Box 3.1 Legal Frameworks
Box 3.2 UMOA/BCEAO: Institutional Arrangements and Governance Structures
Box 3.3 UMAC/BEAC—Institutional Arrangements and Governance Structures
Box 3.4 The Mechanisms of Coordination with France
Box 5.1 Governance Structure of ECTEL
Box 5.2 Comparison of Responsibilities of ECTEL and the NTRCs
Box 6.1 Cape Verde’s Economy
Box 6.2 Who are NOSI’s Managers?
Box 8.1 The Country and Its Economy
Box 8.2 Objectives of the Telecommunications Act of 2005
Box 8.3 Responsibilities, Functions, and Powers of the OR
Box 9.1 What Is Financial Control?
Box 9.2 How Financial Packages Achieve Devolved Financial Control