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Competition Policy in the Asian‐Pacific Region
Author(s) -
Lloyd P. J.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
asian‐pacific economic literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.232
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1467-8411
pISSN - 0818-9935
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8411.00082
Subject(s) - enforcement , competition (biology) , competition law , competition policy , international trade , international economics , economics , business , political science , market economy , law , european union , ecology , biology , monopoly
This paper surveys competition policy in the APEC countries. It covers competition‐promoting policies such as free trade but focuses on competition law. Fourteen of the 21 APEC countries have comprehensive national competition laws but in some the coverage is limited and the enforcement is weak. After reviewing national, bilateral and regional competition laws, the paper discusses the problems of devising competition law in developing countries with a weak tradition of promoting competition.