tertiary courses and are experimenting with greater competition among tertiary education suppliers for public funds. To …

protection. Strengthened competition, particularly in the service sector, is needed to promote the diffusion of new technologies … requires a restructuring of the university system through increased competition and deregulation, as well as additional …

rates remain very high, particularly among young men with low or intermediate qualifications, often formerly employed in the … competitiveness. In particular, often building on recent policy initiatives or commitments, this paper recommends reforms to further … enhance product-market competition, improve innovation efforts and ameliorate the quality of education, which are key to …

coming decade or so. Indeed, the operating environment for private business remains challenging. While infrastructure is … improving in key sectors, partly thanks to greater private investment, bottlenecks endure and efforts to intensify competition …

sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …

procedures, internationalisation needs to be fostered, and competition strengthened. In addition, the negative impact of the …

also increase barriers to entry and distort competition. If stringent environmental policies can be designed in a way that … model. This paper reports evidence on selected competition-relevant aspects of environmental policy design from a cross … their actual stringency, indicating that ambitious environmental targets can be pursued in ways that are more (or less …