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Navigating Beyond COVID-19 : Airline Recovery and Regulatory Reform Opportunities in Southern Africa
World Bank Group - 2022
crisis, the air transport sector in the region faced multipronged challenges, including those related to economic regulation …
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Promoting Competition in the Distribution of Mutual Funds : Lessons for Securities Markets Regulatory Authorities in Emerging Market Economies
World Bank Group - 2017
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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Fostering Competition in the Philippines : The Challenge of Restrictive Regulations
World Bank Group - 2018
Market Regulation (PMR) indicators and the WBG's Markets and Competition Policy Assessment Tool (MCPAT) applied to the …The objective of this report is to identify existing regulatory restraints to competition in key sectors and the … economy as a whole and use them to design an effective competition policy for the Philippines. The report builds on Product …
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Unlocking Growth Potential in Kenya : Dismantling Regulatory Obstacles to Competition
World Bank Group - 2015
regulation; and (ii) effectively enforcing competition law. The main focus of this report is the identification of regulations …'s competitiveness. There are two pillars that sustain effective competition policy: (i) opening markets and removing anticompetitive … that could restrict competition and distort markets and business decisions, having a negative effect on Kenya …
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Inequality in Southern Africa : An Assessment of the Southern African Customs Union
World Bank Group - 2022
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is the most unequal region in the world. While there has been some progress in recent years, inequality has remained almost stagnant in the most unequal countries. Using an innovative framework, this report provides a systematic and comprehensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209148
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The Market for Remittance Services in Southern Africa
World Bank Group - 2018
Remittances are an important source of income for households in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), as well as a crucial source of foreign exchange for countries in the region. Despite the relatively large inflows of remittances to SADC, the cost of sending money to and within the...
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Financial Safety Nets and Bank Resolution Frameworks in Southern Africa : Key Issues and Challenges
World Bank Group - 2019
This report provides an assessment of the current state of development of financial safety nets and bank resolution frameworks in eight countries in southern Africa (Botswana, Eswatini [formerly Swaziland], Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe). It has been prepared...
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Digging Beneath the Surface : An Exploration of the Net Benefits of Mining in Southern Africa
World Bank Group - 2019
Mining has been central to the social and economic narrative of Southern Africa, and has been a key provider of investment, employment, government revenue and infrastructure in the region. In South Africa, the Johannesburg-Pretoria metropolitan area, which serves as the region's economic and...
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Agriculture Risk Financing in Southern Africa
World Bank Group - 2020
This policy note is provided as an output under the World Bank's Regional Advisory Service for Southern Africa, 'Developing a Regional Risk Financing Framework for Agriculture and Food Security'. A key objective of this advisory service is to inform the public sector in Southern Africa on...
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Improving Agriculture and Food Security Risk Financing in Southern Africa
World Bank Group - 2020
The objective of this report is to provide a review of and recommendations for improving the agriculture and food security risk financing framework in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Member States. This report presents the compilation of various analyses and activities realized...
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