. 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 and a competitive environment serve as a crucial foundation for the effective use of resources and the … goods. Customers may obtain more advantages at a lesser cost and of better quality when there is a strong competition. The … investment. Consumer protection and competition are critical for achieving economic growth and decreasing poverty. The …

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

Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question … emerging market economies and developing countries, and finds that an improvement in domestic competition is associated with a … productivity growth. Price levels, including of essential items, are also generally lowered with an increase in competition …

Historically South Africa has favoured incumbents/national champions over rivalry (competition) in the … telecommunications sector. However, the importance of competition has become more apparent with each new development in the sector. Given … the changes in this dynamic sector it is important to evaluate progress on regulating for competition and the obstacles to …

competition. For reasonable parameter values product market deregulation fosters growth substantially more in the flexible than in …

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 …

in various sectors of the Danish economy. It looks at a number of indicators of the strength of competition — including … competition legislation framework. The paper then focuses on the large public sector, which has been slow to open up to … competition, partly because of regulatory restrictions but also because some local governments are too small to handle tenders and …

the study indicate that bank competition inspires industrial growth, particularly the growth of the financially dependent …