. France is catching up with best practice in competition policy reform. However, other policy considerations often hamper the …. Available cross-country evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means to improve economic performance … emergence of effective competition. Relatively weak competitive pressures remain in a number of sectors, particularly in …

policy could strengthen longer-term growth, particularly so where strong product market competition prevents firms from self … policy through the intangible investment channel, and its complementarity with pro-competition product market deregulation …

Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken … competition and has left a legacy of government intervention. Strengthening competition requires upgrading competition policy …

competition is important for promoting economic growth. Recognising the benefits of competition, the government wants to introduce … regulatory reforms to stimulate economic growth. However, the promotion of competition has often conflicted with other policy … competition in a number of sectors, resulting in high prices, weak innovative activity and inefficient resource allocation …

this revolution may be, governments should try hard to assure a market of continued competition among network operators, as … this competition is the source of a self propelled creation of welfare and new opportunities, motivated from within Africa …