Competition in domestic markets is critical to ensure increased international competitiveness. Firms facing more …. Competition policies are defined as the set of policies and a law ensuring that competition in the marketplace is not restricted … in a way that reduces economic welfare. This report reviews the current status of competition policy in Turkey, focusing …

implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). To facilitate the review of Party States (Dominican …

Corruption is bad for development. Leaving aside the morality of bribe taking, influence peddling, embezzlement, and … other abuses of power for personal or narrow group gain, corruption impedes investment and growth and exacerbates poverty … to larger collective ends includes the laws that form the core of norms and institutions. Corruption can never be …

have shown that firm entry, growth and productivity are impeded by corruption and overly burdensome regulation. Most of … to Russia (e.g. Yakovlev and Zhuravskaya, 2007). Cross-regional variation in corruption and regulatory burden in Russia … (NGO) and academic communities who are interested in regulatory reform, corruption, and related aspects of the business …

"The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated … economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper … Claessens and Laeven first estimate for 16 countries a measure of banking system competition based on industrial organization …

the area where the firm is located. "--World Bank web site …