• Competition Principles Under Threat : IDRC Pre-ICN Forum on Competition and Development, Zurich, 2 June 2009; record of the proceedings 

  Wermelinger, Martin; Joekes, Susan; Ruscio, Miriam (Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research, University of St. Gallen, CH, 2009)

  Both developing and industrialized country governments have been forcing mergers, bailing out failing firms, rolling back procurement rules, requiring banks to allocate credit preferentially to domestic firms, and authorizing ...
• Developing and piloting a gender-responsive community-based planning and budgeting tool for local governance 

  Reyes, Celia M.; Fajardo, Juan Paulo M.; Baris, Marsmath A., Jr (DLSU Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies, Manila, PH, 2009)

  The community-based monitoring system (CBMS) initiative in the Philippines attempted to show how CBMS can facilitate gender responsive budgeting (GRB) at the local level. The CBMS tool fills in gaps in the data on different ...
• Migrants contribute to development, yet their transfers are overcharged : why? and what can be done about it?; a perspective from Morocco 

  Achy, Lahcen (Carnegie Middle East Center, 2011)

  The total remittances for Morocco in 2010 in US dollars is $ 6.4 billion (90% from Europe; representing 8% of GDP). In the last decade remittances grew by an average rate of 9% per year, much faster than GDP and consumption. ...
• Remittances : what role can consumer organisations play? 

  Consumers International; MacMullan, Justin (Consumers International, 2011)

  Consumers International is a global federation of consumer organisations with 220 member organisations in 115 countries. It is independent and not-for-profit. The article reviews some actions taken towards general principles ...
• Study of remittances in Uzbekistan : into new times with new ideas, May 17, 2011, The Hague, ND 

  Kholjigitov, Golib (Antimonopoly Policy Improvement Center (APIC), 2011)

  Analysis and regulation of financial services are new to competition bodies; thus, this research has a capacity building and methodological use for Uzbek and other competition bodies. The volume of official remittances to ...
• Corporate governance and competition policy 

  Weber Waller, Spencer (2011)

  This article discusses a more unified approach to two key areas of business law (corporate governance; and antitrust laws). Corporate governance law addresses the misaligned incentives between officers and directors of ...
• Role of the media in building a ‘competition culture’ 

  Stephan, Andreas (Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, 2011)

  Competition law cases are largely confined to the business pages of newspapers, if reported on at all. This brief presentation foregrounds why media coverage is poor/invisible, and how media representation could encourage ...
• Design, process and procedures in the competition laws and agency effectiveness : a case for Botswana and Zambia 

  Kaira, Thula (Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Lusaka, ZM, 2011)

  The slide presentation provides information and analysis on major points of competition law as it applies in Botswana and Zambia, as well as some of the ways legal procedures play out. Institutional effectiveness hinges ...
• Regional institutional design and competition law enforcement : exploring the West African experience 

  Bakhoum, Mor (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich, DE, 2011)

  Subtitled “Getting it right at the outset is crucial: the nexus between regional institutional design and enforcement,” the presentation uses two regional groups to illustrate where there are points of ineffectiveness in ...
• Alliance building for a culture of compliance : countering weaknesses in competition law enforcement 

  Fox, Eleanor (New York University School of Law, 2011)

  This presentation for the International Competition Network (ICN) examines issues in competition law; its effectiveness in terms of court decision-making; flaws in statutory law; and alliances with agencies (universities, ...
• General case for alliance building 

  Jenny, Frederic (Essec Business School, 2011)

  This presentation (2011) for the International Competition Network (ICN) Forum examines the case for the independence of competition authorities from business, including aspects such as: determinants of independence from ...
• For IDRC/ICN Conference 

  Lewis, David (2011)

  The paper examines competition culture as it applies to South Africa in terms of its political environment and the African National Congress (ANC), and as relative to other countries. Whereas in the US, the high regard for ...
• IDRC Pre-ICN Forum on Competition and Development Alliance Building for a Culture of Compliance : session 1: the general case for alliance building 

  Fels, Allan (Australia and New Zealand School of Government, The Hague, NL, 2011)

  This presentation for the International Competition Network Forum outlines constitutional issues, distinctions between competition law and competition policy, government processes, political issues and drivers of reform. ...
• An assessment of impediments to competition in the pharmaceutical sector in Jamaica 

  The Fair Trading Commission (FTC) (2007)
• Centroamérica y México : política de competencia a principios del siglo XXI 

  Rivera, Eugenio; Schatan, Claudia (Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Santiago, CL, 2006)
• Report : using competition law to regulate anticompetitive practices in the pharmaceutical distribution system in Vietnam 

  Anh, Pham Thi Que; Lan, Tran Phuong; Linh, Truong Thuy; Nhung, Tran Phuong; Vietnam. Ministry of Industry and Trade, Competition Administration Department (Vietnam Competition Administration Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Hanoi, VN, 2009)

  In the context of Vietnam’s integration into world economies, new concerns arise in access to medicines and healthcare. Anti-competitive practices in the pharmaceutical industry include price fixing, abuse of market ...
• Schumpeterian competition and its policy implications : the Latin American case 

  Tavares de Araujo, Jose (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Buenos Aires, AR, 2000)

  This paper discusses the peculiar role of competition policy in the process of economic reform. It points out that antitrust can render two important services to an open developing economy: a set of rules that guides the ...
• Progreso técnico y cambio estructural en América Latina 

  CEPAL (Naciones Unidas, Santiago, CL, 2007)
• Informe técnico "Evaluación de posibles prácticas anticompetitivas en el mercado de abastecimiento y distribución de productos de consumo masivo : el caso de Costa Rica" 

  Alvarado, Randall Arce; Montes, Donald Miranda; Arias, Guillermo Zuniga (Centro Internacional de Política Económica para el Desarrollo Sostenible (CINPE), Universidad Nacional, Heredia, CR, 2007)
• Centroamérica y México : política de competencia a principios del siglo XXI 

  Rivera, Eugenio; Schatan, Claudia (Naciones Unidas, Mexico, MX, 2006)

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