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Indonesia.s infrastructure is in poor shape, having suffered from protracted under-investment since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and constraints growth potential. This paper focuses on the current state of the regulatory framework and discusses different options for improvement...
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the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over …
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sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …
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the risks associated with high inflation and volatile capital flows. A steadfast commitment to fiscal consolidation is … improving in key sectors, partly thanks to greater private investment, bottlenecks endure and efforts to intensify competition …
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the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over …
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This paper discusses the current state of product market competition in Iceland, including the legal and regulatory … competition law since the early 1990s have strengthened competitive forces in many sectors of the economy, and proposed amendments … have helped vigorous competition to develop in most segments, but there remain problems in pricing of access to the local …
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This paper examines the strength of product market competition and economic performance in Canada and discusses way in … which the institutional framework governing competition policy could be improved. Competitive forces are comparatively … strong and administrative and economic regulations inhibiting competition are amongst the lowest in the OECD countries …
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policies, a number of challenges remain. Although there are few sectors of the economy from which competition policy and law … competition enforcement. Intellectual property rights create special challenges for competition policy and some problems have … setbacks, reflecting both the difficulties in ensuring competition in such industries and policy mistakes. …
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endemically weak domestic competition, though the country’s relatively low productivity among domestic business likely signals … some sheltering from international competition. The generally healthy level of competition is partly because competition … the competition authority. And, it is suggested that sanctions against individuals in hard-core cartel cases are …
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The strength of product market competition plays an important role in economic growth as it affects economic efficiency … market competition and economic performance in the European Union. The Community’s competition rules, which apply whenever …’s Directorate General for Competition, and complement national competition legislation. Reforms have been adopted recently to …
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