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This policy paper explores airline restructuring and regulatory reform challenges and opportunities in the Southern …
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Air transport plays an important role in fostering development, particularly in facilitating economic integration, generating trade, promoting tourism, and creating employment opportunities. It facilitates integration into the global economy and provides vital connectivity on a national,...
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regulation can promote competition in mutual funds (MFs) distribution. In many emerging market economics (EMEs) where both the … manufacture. However, different forces are opening the doors to competition in the distribution channels including (i) a higher … mobile services; and (iii) regulatory reforms, some of them explicitly aimed at increasing competition. These forces are …
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another airline fills the void left by a defunct airline in Africa. This challenge is further compounded by the difficulty of … airline. The objective of this policy note is to explore policy and operational strategies to build back a safe and …
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The lack of land connectivity among the Caribbean Island nations and the growing significance of the tourism sector as a key economic pillar have underscored the importance of improved air connectivity for economic growth and shared prosperity in the region. On average, tourism's contribution to...
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Croatia's high degree of municipal fragmentation has been consistently recognized as a weakness and one of the main problems of its intergovernmental fiscal system. The report argues that the problem of fragmentation is in essence a problem of capacity. The objective of this report is to review...
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liberalization is to help i) foster more competition in the domestic shipping industry, ii) reduce shipping cost, and iii) improve …
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This note outlines barriers to competition in product markets based primarily on the screening of Serbian regulations … are a screening tool that measure the degree to which regulations promote or inhibit competition. The indicators rely on … and WBG Markets and Competition Policy Team and the primary data has been collected in collaboration with more than 30 …
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Although global economic activity is recovering and output in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) is expected to grow in 2021, containing COVID-19 remains a challenge in the region. Enterprise survey data for the emerging and developing countries in the region show that COVID-19 had a profound and...
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Limited competition hinders the optimal use of telecommunication services in the Dominican Republic, which lags peer … countries in mobile subscriptions and internet penetration. Despite recent reforms designed to enhance competition, the … Bank Group's Markets and Competition Policy Assessment Toolkit (MCPAT), this policy note provides a brief overview of key …
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