Another reason for optimism is that important industries such as telecoms and energy are being deregulated.
EU's vigorous enforcement of rules against state-aid and monopolies and coming deregulation in fields such as telecoms.
Likewise some high-tech industries, such as telecoms, have been protected and others, such as e-commerce, barely existed in 1992.
And although India is opening some sensitive industries, such as telecoms and retail, to foreign investors, ownership limits remain.
Industries such as telecoms and business software appear to need still further consolidation.
The proposed law would place duties on firms in areas such as telecoms, gas and electricity to provide Welsh language services.
The bank argues that it has already moved out of sectors in the richer countries that attract copious investment, such as telecoms.
The billionaires too often flourish thanks to political connections and access to natural resources, land and public goods such as telecoms spectrum.
China's longer-term opportunity is to build an auto industry based not on the gasoline engine but on alternative fuels, skipping a generation of technology as it has done in areas such as telecoms.
Booming industries such as computing and telecoms are vulnerable, notably through standards that handicap foreign firms.
Firms in other technology markets, such as networking and telecoms, might yet be drawn in.
On the other, businessmen say that expensive state-run services such as electricity and telecoms undermine their competitiveness.
They face competition from leaner foreign rivals, and several industries, such as finance and telecoms, are less protected than they were.
Some, such as those involved with telecoms or business services, are strongly in favour.
Bits of the economy, such as the mobile-telecoms industry and some other high-tech areas, continue to prosper.
Investors were more interested in emerging industries, such as technology and mobile telecoms, than in emerging countries.
Others, such as some of the telecoms investments, are paying the price for their dependence on Indonesia's domestic economy.
Investors will also converge on the compelling opportunities in core economic sectors such as banking, mobile telecoms, internet, electricity, building materials, and food processing.
Outside investors have taken advantage of low share prices in the past year to turn small stakes into big ones in a few firms, such as Rostelecom, a telecoms firm.
Weight your portfolio towards high-quality fixed-income securities and focus your Canadian stock list on banks, utilities, and leading telecoms such as BCE Inc. ( BCE), which just raised its dividend by 5%.
These include telecoms firms such as Nortel, Ericsson, Motorola and Deutsche Telekom.
Ericsson, Lucent and other equipment makers are losing ground to domestic telecoms firms such as Huawei, which make gear that is almost as good and a lot cheaper.
With enough volume, this could allow big telecoms users, such as multinational firms, to predict their telephone bills.
The world of electronic communications is full of examples of bundling, such as the charging arrangements offered by telecoms companies and by internet-service providers.
Less routinely, he foresees a greater role for the private sector in such areas as oil, electricity and telecoms, with clear, court-enforced rules to attract wary foreign investors.
It is possible that the price of bonds of the better telecoms firms, such as Telewest and Nextel, could double in the next two years even though they pay yields well in excess of 20%, a gain usually associated only with the best years of venture capital, not boring old bonds.
In return George Alogoskoufis, the new, pro-market finance minister, will hold off on reforms that Pasok-run trade unions oppose, such as full privatisation of Greece's telecoms and electricity companies.
Several South American countries, such as Chile and Brazil, which introduced telecoms competition more successfully than Mexico, are seeing rapid growth in telephone lines and Internet use and falling user costs.
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