Leading Issues in Competition, Regulation, and DevelopmentPaul Cook Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004 M01 1 - 452 pages The promotion of liberalized and deregulated markets by bilateral and multilateral aid donors, and by global institutions such as the WTO, has led to significant attention being paid to competition and regulatory reforms in developing economies. The proce |
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... incentives through the creation of better business opportunities . In the view of evolutionary economics , the search for an appropriate competition policy , particularly in economies where market institutions are underdeveloped ...
... incentives through the creation of better business opportunities . In the view of evolutionary economics , the search for an appropriate competition policy , particularly in economies where market institutions are underdeveloped ...
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... incentives under private and state ownership for managers to manage their businesses efficiently and to the incentives that government as regulator faces in regulating effectively . Under state ownership the government is both the owner ...
... incentives under private and state ownership for managers to manage their businesses efficiently and to the incentives that government as regulator faces in regulating effectively . Under state ownership the government is both the owner ...
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... incentive for the firm to outperform in terms of reducing costs or attracting customers , leading to higher profits ( Littlechild , 1983 ; Viehoff , 1995 ) . The UK has championed price cap regulation because of its supposed incentive ...
... incentive for the firm to outperform in terms of reducing costs or attracting customers , leading to higher profits ( Littlechild , 1983 ; Viehoff , 1995 ) . The UK has championed price cap regulation because of its supposed incentive ...
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... incentives within different regulatory regimes and the lessons to be learned . The rationale for regulatory practice and the comparative roles of market failure and regulatory and political capture . The extent to which the attributes ...
... incentives within different regulatory regimes and the lessons to be learned . The rationale for regulatory practice and the comparative roles of market failure and regulatory and political capture . The extent to which the attributes ...
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... incentives for the acquisi- tion of assets versus incentives for their use . The chapter draws on theory to consider issues relating to factors that inhibit competition and to discuss their implications for policy in developing ...
... incentives for the acquisi- tion of assets versus incentives for their use . The chapter draws on theory to consider issues relating to factors that inhibit competition and to discuss their implications for policy in developing ...
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Page 122 - Members are not obliged to apply the conditions set forth in subparagraphs (b) and (f) where such use is permitted to remedy a practice determined after judicial or administrative process to be anticompetitive. The need to correct anti-competitive practices may be taken into account in determining the amount of remuneration in such cases. Competent authorities shall have the authority to refuse termination of authorization if and when the conditions which led to such authorization are likely to recur...
Page 114 - France will take the measures which it deems appropriate, and will cooperate with other participating countries, to prevent, on the part of private or public commercial enterprises, business practices or business arrangements affecting international trade which restrain competition, limit access to markets or foster monopolistic control...
Page 119 - The products of the territory of any contracting party imported into the territory of any other contracting party shall be accorded treatment no less favourable than that accorded to like products of national origin in respect of all laws, regulations and requirements affecting their internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use.
Page 114 - Organization to prevent, on the part of private or public commercial enterprises, business practices affecting international trade which restrain competition, limit access to markets, or foster monopolistic control, whenever such practices have harmful effects on the expansion of production or trade and interfere with the achievement of any of the other objectives set forth in Article 1.
Page 273 - The State shall protect and advance the right of the people to a balanced and healthful ecology in accord with the rhythm and harmony of nature.
Page 147 - Private enterprise in the economic field shall be free. It may not be carried on so as to conflict with the public interest, or in a manner prejudicial to safety or liberty, or to the dignity of man. The law will set up appropriate schemes and controls in order that public and private economic activities may be directed and coordinated for the benefit of society.
Page 64 - ... that, if the state of affairs assumed by the theory of perfect competition ever existed, it would not only deprive of their scope all the activities which the verb "to compete" describes but would make them virtually impossible.
Page 65 - Capitalism, then, is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary.
Page 121 - Each Member shall, at the request of any other Member, enter into consultations with a view to eliminating practices referred to in paragraph 1 . The Member addressed shall accord full and sympathetic consideration to such a request and shall cooperate through the supply of publicly available non-confidential information of relevance to the matter in question.
Page 66 - Every locality has incidents of its own which affect in various ways the methods of arrangement of every class of business that is carried on in it ; and even in the same place and the same trade, no two persons pursuing the same aims will adopt exactly the same routes".