Transcript Rijit Sengupta, Regional Director Africa, CUTS International

FRAMEWORK FOR
COMPETITION REFORMS (FCR)
Rijit Sengupta
CREW NRG-II Meeting
27th June, Lusaka (Zambia)
OUTLINE
• Background
• Competition Reforms
& FCR
• Preparatory Work
• Components of FCR
• Process in CREW
Countries
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Background
“If countries eliminated policies and practices that distort
competition, they could grow rapidly”, Power of Productivity,
William W Lewis (2004)
- Many DCs/LDCs have adopted competition laws in last decade
- However implementation remains limited
- Policies affect competition, markets remain concentrated and
anti-competitive practices prevail
- Benefits of competition don’t accrue to consumers, producers
- Low level of understanding and attention of key stakeholders
- Benefits of introducing competition reforms needs to be
demonstrated
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Competition Reforms
Components of Competition Reforms:
(i) Enabling government policies
(ii) Well-designed regulatory framework
(iii) Functional competition regime (policy/law/agency)
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What is FCR?
Framework for Competition Reforms (FCR)
(i) A method to explain how to plan, execute, evaluate &
rectify competition reforms in key sectors
(ii) To help key stakeholders appreciate benefits of competition
reforms on consumers, producers
(iii) Lead to greater attention to the issue as part of economic
planning and reforms in DCs
(iv) Developed for specific sector/market
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FCR Preparatory Work
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Need of a ‘competition champion’ to lead the process
Formation of a CRFT (small but decisive group)
Identify ‘need for competition reforms’
Identify the sector/market to be reformed and why?
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Components of
FCR
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Planning
Executing
Evaluating
Rectifying
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FCR Planning
• Identification of policies, legislations, statues, programmes,
practices to be assessed (based on the ‘Need for Reforms’)
• Setting specific objectives of this assessment (consumer and
producer benefits)
• Selection of Indicators of consumer and producer benefits
• A ‘stakeholder mapping’ exercise
• Development of an ‘analytical plan’ for collection of data,
analysis and interpretation of results
• Allocation of responsibilities to different members of CRFT
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FCR Executing
• Assess how components of competition reforms are ingrained
in selected policies, legislations, statues, programmes,
practices in selected sectors
• Narrow down to specific reforms from the above, that seem
to lead to pro-competitive and/or anti-competitive outcomes
• Assess current levels of consumer and producer welfare, as
well as prevailing concerns vis-à-vis selected reforms
• Attempt linking consumer/producer benefit/welfare/concerns
with above-mentioned set of reforms, over time
• Record suggestions from consumers, producers and other key
stakeholders for refinements
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FCR Evaluating
• Analyse secondary literature/information and primary data
• Measure current and estimate future impacts of the
identified policies and practices on consumers and producers
– using specified scientific tools
• Identify political economy constraints in sectors
• Generate a body of evidence, to be used in advocating for
reviewing the selected reforms through an inclusive and
transparent multi-stakeholder process
• Develop a plan for using the evidence
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FCR Rectifying
• Review and discuss impacts of reforms on consumers and
producers in selected markets/sectors in light of the evidence
• Plan a process for initiating ‘corrective measures’
• Develop a M&E framework to periodically assess and report
consumer and producer benefits to stakeholders once these
‘corrective measures’ are taken.
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Process in CREW Countries
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Development of outline and drafting FCR
Indigenisation of FCR based on country scenario by partners
Incorporation of stakeholders’ views to make adjustments
Draft sector specific FCR in countries
Draft FCR shared with NRG members in NRG-III and finalised
for each of two sectors
• Used to elicit interest among government/stakeholders for
FCR in other sectors
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NRG-I Meeting, Lusaka
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Thank You
www.cuts-ccier.org/CREW
[email protected]
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