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Competition Policy, Competitiveness, and Investment in a Global Economy

Organized by the World Bank Group (Private Sector Development & Foreign Investment Advisory Service) and UNCTAD in cooperation with the European Commission
 
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
May 10-12, 2004


The general objective of the conference was to analyse the relationship between competition, productivity, competitiveness, economic growth and poverty reduction –  what is/is not known – and review the state of competition policy in Eastern and Southern Africa. Specific objectives were:

i) to review the nature of public and private restraints to domestic and international competition;

ii) to analyze the extent to which the existing institutional framework (liberalization of trade, investment, licensing, entry-exit of firms, competition law-policy, and their inter-face, effectiveness and limitations) provides adequate instruments (policies, laws, skills, and institutions) to promote competition;

iii) to appraise the actual functioning of the regime, in particular through the discussion of selected case studies in the region and elsewhere;

iv) to provide recommendations on how best to incorporate competition policy into broad-based investment and PSD promotion policies; and

v) to evaluate instruments for international cooperation, capacity, and institution building.

Agenda

Session I: Competition, Growth and Poverty Reduction

Key Note Speech: Economic Reforms and the Business Climate in Tanzania by H. E. Juma Ngasongwa, Minister for Industries and Commerce, Tanzania
Session III: Anti-competitive Business Conducts (Cartels and Collusive Behaviour): Cases and Country Experiences Session IV: Issues in Market Dominance (Mergers, etc.):  Cases and Country Experiences
  • Alexander Kububa, Commissioner, Industry and Trade Competition Commission, Zimbabwe
  • Norman Manoim, Competition Tribunal, South Africa
  • George Lipimile, Executive Director, Zambia Competition Commission
Session V: Competition Advocacy and Regulated Industries: Cases and Country Experiences Session VI: Private Sector Perspectives
  • Andrea Goldstein, Senior Investment Policy Officer, Foreign Investment Advisory Service, The World Bank Group
  • Augustine Seyuba, Director, Group Corp. Affairs, Zambian Breweries PLC
  • Richard d’Offay, Market Director, Trois Frčres Distillery, Seychelles
  • Clive Stanbrook, Stanbrook-Hooper, Belgium
  • Egas Mussanhane, President, Confederation of Business Associations of Mozambique
Session VII: Global and Regional Competition Issues