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PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT:

_Globalization, Liberalization and Policy Change: A Political
Economy of India's Communications Sector_ (Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Macmillan Press, and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997). xix + 267
pp.

By Stephen D. McDowell, Assistant Professor, Department of
Communications, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

Foreword by Bella Mody.  Part of the Macmillan International Political
Economy Series, General Editor: Timothy Shaw

FROM THE JACKET:

State-owned Doordarshan was the only television broadcaster in
India until the early 1990s.  By 1995 numerous private national and
global satellite-based broadcasters sought Indian audiences.
Software exports, typified by temporary labour contracts, grew over
ten times in a decade.  Many global software firms have now located
in India to gain access to low-cost, skilled engineers.  Private
bids for local telephone franchises were invited in 1995, making
India one the first countries to allow local telephone service
competition.  India's middle class is now portrayed in the world
press as one of the next big emerging markets for consumer goods,
audiovisual programming and communications services.

Policies for telecommunications, computer software and television
broadcasting have shifted drastically since the 1980s as has
India's participation in international negotiations on trade in
services.  The book examines communications policy debates over the
last ten years, and challenges popular explanations of
liberalization in India.  These policies are linked to
communication's role in social and economic development and to the
emergence of global trade and investment in communications.

CONTENTS:

List of Tables
Foreword: Challenging Liberalization and Globalization, by Bella
          Mody
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
1 Policy Change in Indian Communications
2 The Conventional Account of Liberalization
3 Historical and Critical Perspectives
4 India's Political Economy in a Global Context
5 Trade in Services Negotiations
6 Telecommunications Policies
7 Software and Computer Service Exports
8 Audiovisual Services and Broadcasting
9 Opening Policy Choices
Notes
Index

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