Government Policy promoting Competition, Innovation & Jobs
Session 1 | 1045 to 1300hrs | 12 December 2015
Role of Government in promoting sustainable economic growth through competition reforms (exploring how competition can help promote healthy markets, create employment, promote innovation and industrialisation)
For competition reforms to receive adequate attention, it is crucial that key organs of the government are convinced (and taken into confidence) about the role of competition and regulatory reforms in contributing towards sustainable economic growth through better functioning markets, industrialisation and innovation – thereby creating jobs in DCs. Industrial policy is often designed to promote and protect certain domestic sectors in DCs. This presents considerable challenge for promoting competition and regulatory reforms. New thinking and direction about how this has been done in some countries (sector/country specific case studies) would provide crucial lessons.
Presentations
Impact of Choice and Competition Reforms on Secondary Schools in Nigeria
– Afolayan Gbenga Emmanuel, Murdoch University, Australia
Making Competition Policy work in Mexico
– Umut Aydin, Universidad Catolica de Chile
Competition Law and Sustainable Development in China
– Wendy Ng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Discussants
– Eleanor Fox, New York University, USA
Francis Kariuki, Competition Authority of Kenya
Owen Gabbitas, Productivity Commission, Australia
Chair
Martha Martinez Licetti, World Bank Group, USA