indirect effects often involve market distortions. By contrast, the literature is broadly united on the benefits of competition … for productivity and innovation. This review finds that the most successful industrial policies reinforce competition …, suggesting that competition policy and certain types of industrial policy can be crafted as complements …

economic growth. In general, Mexico's federal government has a solid competition policy framework in place. Subnational … increase the cost of doing business. The World Bank Group (WBG) was requested to address a critical gap and to pilot a reform …-oriented engagement on competition policy at the subnational level. WBG engaged to motivate an actionable reform plan that can unlock …

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 … Market Regulation (PMR) indicators and the WBG's Markets and Competition Policy Assessment Tool (MCPAT) applied to the …

This policy note has been produced under the competition reform assessment ASA with the objective of identifying key … constraints to competition in Armenia and providing recommendations on a set of actionable reforms that could help foster market … contestability and competition in key sectors and across the economy. In particular, the policy note seeks to identify a menu of …

anticompetitive behavior and restrictive regulatory frameworks by a fewdominant players. Effective competition policies offer a tool … to complement and support governments' efforts to reduce barriers to trade. Active competition among market players has … competition within national markets reinforces international competitiveness of potential exporters through increased incentives …

competition policies for poverty reduction strategies …

Regulatory reform and competition policy are two important and inter-related areas of regulatory policy and public … discusses definitions and key issues associated with regulation, regulatory quality, and competition policy. This discussion … focuses on competition policy as it relates to restrictions on competition and also pro-competitive regulation, which involves …