Regulating Development: Evidence from Africa and Latin AmericaEdmund Amann Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006 - 328 pages Regulating Development examines the impact that regulation good or bad can have on the development of poorer societies. It opens with a succinct review of critical issues, including the implications of the spread of intellectual property rights legislatio |
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... Brazilian economy 101 Edmund Amann and Werner Baer 6. Brazilian regulatory agencies: early appraisal and looming challenges 114 Andrea Goldstein and José Claudio Linhares Pires 7. Corporate governance, regulation and the lingering role ...
... Brazilian economy 101 Edmund Amann and Werner Baer 6. Brazilian regulatory agencies: early appraisal and looming challenges 114 Andrea Goldstein and José Claudio Linhares Pires 7. Corporate governance, regulation and the lingering role ...
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... Brazilian regulatory agencies Regional distribution of telecoms operators 127 129 134 6.8 Regulatory agencies in selected countries : a comparative summary 144 7.1 7.2 Privatization of the big steel companies in Brazil , 1991–94 ...
... Brazilian regulatory agencies Regional distribution of telecoms operators 127 129 134 6.8 Regulatory agencies in selected countries : a comparative summary 144 7.1 7.2 Privatization of the big steel companies in Brazil , 1991–94 ...
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... Brazil Andrea Goldstein is Senior Economist at the OECD Development Centre in Paris, France Peter Holmes is Reader in Economics at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Judi Hudson is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies ...
... Brazil Andrea Goldstein is Senior Economist at the OECD Development Centre in Paris, France Peter Holmes is Reader in Economics at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Judi Hudson is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies ...
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... Brazil José Claudio Linhares Pires is an economist based at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA Fungai Sibanda is based at the Competition Commission, Pretoria, South Africa Yin-Fang Zhang is Lecturer in Development ...
... Brazil José Claudio Linhares Pires is an economist based at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA Fungai Sibanda is based at the Competition Commission, Pretoria, South Africa Yin-Fang Zhang is Lecturer in Development ...
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... Brazil, Ghana and South Africa. Key regulatory themes are analysed, most notably capital markets and corporate governance regulation, the regulation of the telecommunications sector, and the use of regulatory reforms to promote the ...
... Brazil, Ghana and South Africa. Key regulatory themes are analysed, most notably capital markets and corporate governance regulation, the regulation of the telecommunications sector, and the use of regulatory reforms to promote the ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 The World Trade Organisation and domestic regulation | 39 |
Chapter 4 Learning to love patents capacity building intellectual property and the reproduction of governance norms in the developing world | 65 |
Chapter 5 From the developmental to the regulatory state the transformation of the governments impact on the Brazilian economy | 101 |
Chapter 6 Brazilian regulatory agencies early appraisal and looking challenges | 114 |
Chapter 7 Corporate governance rgulation and the lingering role of the state in the postprivatized Brazilian steel industry | 153 |
Chapter 8 Privatization and regulation in South Africa an evaluation | 179 |
Chapter 9 A comparative analysis of the performance of public and private water utilities in Africa | 198 |
Chapter 10 Why regulations matter a smallbusines perspective | 223 |
Chapter 11 The changing regulatory environment and its implications for the performance of small and mediumsized enterprises in Ghana | 237 |
Chapter 12 Regulating for competition the case of Telkom in South Africa | 272 |
Index | 303 |
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Page 45 - Internal charges, and laws, regulations and requirements affecting the Internal sale, offering for sale, purchase, transportation, distribution or use of products, and Internal quantitative regulations requiring mixture, processing or use of products In specified amounts or proportions.
Page 49 - Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on international trade...
Page 47 - Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any contracting party of measures: [....] (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health; [....] (g) relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources if such measures are made effective in conjunction with restrictions on domestic production or consumption.
Page 47 - For this purpose, technical regulations shall not be more trade-restrictive than necessary to fulfil a legitimate objective, taking account of the risks non-fulfilment would create. Such legitimate objectives are, inter alia: national security requirements; the prevention of deceptive practices; protection of human health or safety, animal or plant life or health, or the environment.
Page 48 - Where technical regulations are required and relevant international standards exist or their completion is imminent, Members shall use them, or the relevant parts of them, as a basis for their technical regulations...
Page 46 - ... applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail or a disguised restriction on international trade, and are otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.
Page 60 - For the purposes of dispute settlement under this Agreement, subject to the provisions of Articles 3 and 4 nothing in this Agreement shall be used to address the issue of the exhaustion of intellectual property rights.
Page 65 - Such cooperation shall include assistance in the preparation of domestic legislation on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights as well as on the prevention of their abuse, and shall include support regarding the establishment or reinforcement of domestic offices and agencies relevant to these matters, including the training of personnel. PART...
Page 47 - It obliges the member countries to ensure that technical regulations as well as conformity assessment procedures are not prepared, adopted or applied with a view to or with the effect of creating unnecessary obstacles to international trade.
Page 57 - Recognizing the right of Members to regulate, and to introduce new regulations, on the supply of services within their territories in order to meet national policy objectives...