This book focuses on market law and policy in sub-Saharan Africa, showing how markets can be harnessed by poorer and developing economies to help make the markets work for them: to help them integrate into the world economy and provide a better standard of living for their people while preserving their values of inclusive development. It explores uses of power both by dominant firms, often multinationals, and incumbent governments and cronies, to ring-fence their market positions and deprive rivals - often the indigenous people - from fair access to markets and highlights how competition authorities are pushing back and winning fair access, lowering prices of goods and services especially for the poorer population. The book also examines the next level up - regionalism - and provides the facts that show how regionalism has so far failed to meet its promise of freeing markets from cross-border restraints by large firms that operate across national borders. On the more technical side, the book takes a deep look at the competition policies of sets of nations in sub-Saharan Africa - West, South-eastern, and South. It examines the performance of the competition authorities of particular nations, including how they handle cartels, monopolies and mergers; their standards of illegality, and their methodologies for incorporating public interest values into their analyses. Observing the good works by a number of the national competition authorities, the book is optimistic about the role of the national competition authorities in protecting the people from abuses of economic power, and, perhaps in the future, the role of regional authorities and less formal networks in promoting an African voice in defence of competition.

Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Development, and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fox, Eleanor M.

Bakhoum, Mor

Foreign & International Law

Oxford University Press

Review\n"It is rare to come across a competition law book which is simultaneously generous in its outlook, original in its methodology and classical in its approach. "Making Markets Work For Africa" (Oxford University Press, 2019) written by Eleanor Fox and Mor Bakhoum, two of the world most-renowned experts on comparative competition law issues, is just such a book and it is a must read for anyone interested in the development of competition laws in developing countries." -- Frederic Jenny, Professor of Economics, ESSEC Business School, Paris, and Chairman, OECD Competition Committee\n"Clear and creative ways in which democratising markets can aid meaningful development in Africa..." -- Albie Sachs, retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa\n"Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Developments and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa provides significant insight into its subject matter and the topics covered. ... the content provides a concise but necessary introduction to the social, political and economic challenges which underpin most sub-Saharan jurisdictions. Readers who may not be familiar with the jurisdictions covered in the book will find this useful for purposes of contextualising the competition policy debate and the nuances which underpin this debate. ... We congratulate the authors on this important and well researched text." -- African Antitrust & Competition Law News and Analysis\n"rich in its analysis and presentation ... the book is a must for high level policy makers, and policy influencers, of low and middle income countries, in order for them to draw an effective development roadmap ushering higher growth along with equity. The book can also be insightful for policy researchers in the developed world who are grappling to find solution to increasing inequality in their own societies." -- Pradeep S Mehta, Concurrences\n"Eleanor Fox and Mor Bakhoum's new book, Making Markets Work for Africa (Oxford University Press, 2019), is a tour de force study of the interaction between markets, development, and competition law in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a must read for anyone interested in competition law in developing jurisdictions." -- Michal Gal, Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog\n"The impressive canvass of this book will stimulate debate among policy makers as it fills a significant gap in the existing literature which will be of great assistance to teachers of competition law and to adjudicative authorities seeking imaginative ways of developing a competition jurisprudence that will promote development in their countries." -- Professor Dennis Davis, Judge President, Competition Appeal Court, South Africa\nThis book focuses on market law and policy in sub-Saharan Africa, showing how markets can be harnessed by poorer and developing economies to help make the markets work for them: to help them integrate into the world economy and provide a better standard of living for their people while preserving their values of inclusive development. It explores uses of power both by dominant firms, often multinationals, and incumbent governments and cronies, to ring-fence their market positions and deprive rivals - often the indigenous people - from fair access to markets and highlights how competition authorities are pushing back and winning fair access, lowering prices of goods and services especially for the poorer population. The book also examines the next level up - regionalism - and provides the facts that show how regionalism has so far failed to meet its promise of freeing markets from cross-border restraints by large firms that operate across national borders.\nOn the more technical side, the book takes a deep look at the competition policies of sets of nations in sub-Saharan Africa - West, South-eastern, and South. It examines the performance of the competition authorities of particular nations, including how they handle cartels, monopolies, and mergers; their standards o

Business & Money

Economics

Competition (or antitrust) law is national law. More than 120 jurisdictions have adopted their own competition law. Is there a need for convergence of the competition law systems of the world? Much effort has been devoted to nudging substantive law convergence in the absence of an international law of competition. But it is widely acknowledged that institutions play as great a role as substantive principles in the harmonious - or dissonant - application of the law. This book provides the first in depth study of the institutions of antitrust. It does so through a particular inquiry: Do the competition systems of the world embrace substantially the same process norms? Are global norms embedded in the institutional arrangements, however disparate? Delving deeply into their jurisdictions, the contributors illuminate the inner workings of the systems and expose the process norms embedded within. Case studies feature Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, South Africa, the USA, and the European Union, as well as the four leading international institutions involved in competition: the World Trade Organization, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the International Competition Network; and the introductory and synthesizing chapter by the directors of the project draws also from the new institutional arrangements of Brazil and India. The book reveals that there are indeed common process norms across the very different systems; thus, this study is a counterpart to studies on convergence of substantive rules. The synthesizing chapter observes an emerging 'sympathy of systems' in which global process norms, along with substantive norms, play a critical role. The book provides benchmarks for the field and suggests possibilities for future development when the norms are embraced in aspiration but not yet in practice. It offers insights for all interested in competition law and global governance.

The Design of Competition Law Institutions: Global Norms, Local Choices (Law and Global Governance)

Trebilcock, Michael J.

Substantive law is divided into four sections: (a) the four freedoms of movement of persons, goods, services, and capital; (b) all aspects of competition policy; (c) external relations; and (d) specific community policies such as agriculture and social policy. Up-to-date and includes references to the controversial and little-understood principle of subsidiarity and to other changes proposed in the Maastricht Treaty. Each subject contains a valuable and concise introduction followed by the cases. Each case contains a summary of the issues or facts followed by extracts from the judgment and questions, comments, and cross-references including comparative law comments.

Cases and Materials on European Community Law (American Casebook Series)

Davey, William J.

Goebel, Roger J.

Legal Theory & Systems

West Group

1995 Supplement to Cases and Materials on Antitrust (American Casebook Series)

Sukkivan, Lawrence A.

The Competition Law of the European Union, Excerpted from Cases and Materials on European Union Law (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)

West Academic

Guides students through the history of the European Community and the different relationships between members and enforcement. Also outlines the free movement of goods, duties, charges and internal taxes, quantitative restrictions, and industrial and commercial property rights. Includes chapters on the harmonization of laws and the completion of the internal market by 1992, the rights of practice for lawyers and other professionals, and the external relations powers of the European Community. Concludes with a look at the economic and monetary coordination of the European Community with regard toward economic and monetary union.

2004 Supplement to Cases and Materials on European Union Law, Second Edition (American Casebook Series)

Bermann, George A.

West

This Documents Supplement is designed to accompany European Community Law: Cases and Materials (West Publishing Co. 1993). Use of the Supplement is essential for a full understanding of the materials in the casebook.

European Community Law Selected Documents: (Including European Union Materials) : 1998 (American Casebook Series)

The Casebook Supplement is an update of developments since 1995 including the October 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam.

1998 Supplement to Cases and Materials on European Community Law: (Including European Union Materials) (American Casebook Series)

Includes the treaty establishing the European Union (EC Treaty), as amended by the Single European Act and the Treaty on European Union, important articles taken from the prior European Economic Community Treaty, and the Treaty on European Union Provisions, other than the amendments to the EC Treaty. Supplement also includes the more important Community legislative measures in the form of regulations and directives that are discussed in the casebook.

European Union Law: Selected Documents, 2002 (Black Letter Outline Series)

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Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Development, and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa

Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Development, and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Design of Competition Law Institutions: Global Norms, Local Choices (Law and Global Governance)

Cases and Materials on European Community Law (American Casebook Series)

1995 Supplement to Cases and Materials on Antitrust (American Casebook Series)

The Competition Law of the European Union, Excerpted from Cases and Materials on European Union Law (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)

2004 Supplement to Cases and Materials on European Union Law, Second Edition (American Casebook Series)

European Community Law Selected Documents: (Including European Union Materials) : 1998 (American Casebook Series)

1998 Supplement to Cases and Materials on European Community Law: (Including European Union Materials) (American Casebook Series)

European Union Law: Selected Documents, 2002 (Black Letter Outline Series)