CRC series on competition, regulation and development
GENERAL NOTES
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"Chapters 3, 7, 8-10 and 12 of this book were originally presented at the Centre for Regulation and Competition's third international conference in Cape Town, South Africa during September 2004"--Acknowledgements.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Creating the conditions for international business expansion : the impact of regulation on economic growth in developing countries -- a cross-country analysis / Hossein Jalilian, Colin Kirkpatrick and David Parker -- The World Trade Organisation and domestic regulation / Peter Holmes -- Learning to love patents : capacity building, intellectual property and the (re)production of governance norms in the 'developing world' / Christopher May -- From the developmental to the regulatory state : the transformation of the government's impact on the Brazilian economy / Edmund Amann and Werner Baer -- Brazilian regulatory agencies : early appraisal and looming challenges / Andrea Goldstein and José Claudio Linhares Pires -- Corporate governance, regulation and the lingering role of the state in the post-privatized Brazilian steel industry / Edmund Amann, João Carlos Ferraz and Germano Mendes de Paula -- Privatization and regulation in South Africa : an evaluation / Afeikhena Jerome -- A comparative analysis of the performance of public and private water utilities in Africa / Colin Kirkpatrick, David Parker and Yin-Fang Zhang -- Why regulations matter : a small-business perspective / Judi Hudson -- The changing regulatory environment and its implications for the performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Ghana / Ernest Aryeetey and Ama Asantewah Ahene -- Regulating for competition : the case of Telkom in South Africa / Oludele A. Akinboade and Fungai Sibanda.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Examines the impact that regulation - good or bad - can have on the development of poorer societies. This book opens with a review of critical issues, including the implications of the spread of intellectual property rights legislation and the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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