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.