Regional institutional design and competition law enforcement : exploring the West African experience

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2011

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Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich, DE

Abstract

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 the collaboration of national competition authorities: the case of ECOWAS (currently 15 member countries in the Economic Community of West African States); and of WAEMU (the West African Economic and Monetary Union of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo). In offsetting design flaws at the regional level, alliance building at the beginning may prove more constructive.

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Meeting: IDRC Pre-ICN Forum on Competition and Development, The Hague, May 17, 2011
PowerPoint presentation

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COMPETITION, INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK, REGIONAL INTEGRATION, COMPETITION LAW, REGULATIONS, ECONOMIC REFORM, ECOWAS, SOUTH OF SAHARA, COMPETITION POLICY, ENFORCEMENT

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