Features Record of Proceedings IDRC Pre-ICN Forum on Competition and Development, Zurich, 2 June 2009: Competition Principles Under Threat

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This Forum was held on June 2 2009 in Zurich, immediately prior to and in the same venue as the annual conference of the International Competition Network.  It addressed special policy measures in the context of the global economic crisis from a competition perspective and examined their impact on development.

 

The credit crisis and the downturn in the real economy are evidently weakening governments’ commitment to competition principles worldwide.  Both developing and industrialized country governments are forcing mergers, bailing out failing firms, rolling back procurement rules, requiring banks to allocate credit preferentially to domestic firms, and authorizing new state aids at dizzying speed.  These measures are likely to be damaging to national economies, and stand to distort trade and impede development.  Their extraordinary scale and range is reversing decades of slowly-won competition norms and guidelines. This Forum provided a unique opportunity for practitioners and academic experts to document the incidence and assess the character of special measures from a competition perspective, to examine their impact on development, and to discuss ways of rescuing competition principles from further erosion during periods of crisis.

Read the program note, agenda and Record of Proceedings of the IDRC Pre-ICN Forum on Competition and Development.

 

For more informatin on IDRC's work on competition research, visit the Competition Research for Economic Development website.

 

For more information the ICN Conference, visit the ICN Conference website.

 

NEW: View the presentations from the IDRC Pre-ICN Forum below.

For further information contact IDRC sjoekes@idrc.org.eg, Globalization, Growth and Poverty Program Initiative (www.idrc.ca/ggp/).

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IDRC Pre-ICN Forum on Competition and Development, Zurich, 2 June 2009: Competition Principles Under Threat

CARICOM Competition Commission: Enhancing Competition Enforcement in the Caribbean Community Open file

Papers - Daniel Crane 2009-06-25
Antitrust Enforcement During National Crises: An Unhappy History Open file

Papers - Dave Lewis 2009-06-25
Competition Law and Policy in Bad Times Open file

Papers - Khalid Sekkat 2009-06-25
Does competition improve productivity in developing countries? Open file

Papers - Thula Kaira 2009-06-25
A study of competition in the beef, poultry and dairy retail sectors in Zambia Open file

Presentations - Amadou Dieng 2009-06-11
Quel type de cooperation entre autoritiés de concurrence Open file

Presentations - Anthony Black 2009-06-11
The economic crisis, competition and the auto industry: a view from the south Open file

Presentations - Daniel Crane 2009-06-11
Antitrust Enforcement During Financial Crises and Wars: A Historical Perspective Open file

Presentations - Elizabeth Farina 2009-06-11
Competition Issues in Food Product Markets: international challenges, national interventions Open file

Presentations - Frederic Jenny 2009-06-11
Competition Enforcement in Testing Times: beyond the national level Open file

Presentations - Jaime Barahoma 2009-06-11
Why inter-agency cooperation matters. The Chilean experience Open file

Presentations - Khelifa Tounekti 2009-06-11
La Tunisie face à la crise alimentaire: quel rôle pour les autorités de la concurrence Open file

Presentations - Michal Petr 2009-06-11
State Subsidies and Automobile Industry in the Czech Republic Open file

Presentations - Paul Seabright 2009-06-11
Competition Policy in a Crisis? Open file

Presentations - Simon Roberts 2009-06-11
South Africa's recent experience of market power and competition concerns in food Open file

Presentations - Steve McCorriston 2009-06-11
Competition in the Food Sector and Commodity Markets Open file

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