This book brings together perspectives of development economics and
law to tackle the relationship between competition law enforcement and
economic development. It addresses the question of whether, and how,
competition law enforcement helps to promote economic growth and
development. This question is highly pertinent for developing
countries largely because many developing countries have only adopted
competition law in recent years: about thirty jurisdictions had in
place a competition law in the early 1980s, and there are now more
than 130 competition law regimes across the world, of which many are
developing countries. The book proposes a customized approach to
competition law enforcement for developing countries, set against the
background of the academic and policy debate concerning convergence of
competition law. The implicit premise of convergence is that there may
exist one, or a few, correct approaches to competition law
enforcement, which in most cases emanate from developed jurisdictions,
that are applicable to all. This book rejects this assumption and
argues that developing countries ought to tailor competition law
enforcement to their own economic and political circumstances. In
particular, it suggests how competition law enforcement can better
incorporate development concerns without causing undue dilution of its
traditional focus on protecting consumer welfare. It proposes ways in
which approaches to competition law enforcement need to be adjusted to
reflect the special economic characteristics of developing country
economies and the more limited enforcement capacity of developing
country competition authorities. Finally, it also addresses the
long-running debate concerning the desirability and viability of
industrial policy for developing countries. The author would like to
acknowledge the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong for its generous
support. The work in this book was fully supported by a grant from the
Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (Project No. HKU 742412H).
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ISBN
9780192607393
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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