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Working Paper
Anticompetitive practices on public procurement: Evidence from Brazilian electronic biddings

Using big data from the Brazilian public procurement system, this research aims to investigate what factors are associated with the occurrence of anticompetitive practices in electronic bidding...

Competition Procurement Fraud
Working Paper
Barriers to entry and the role of African multinational corporations: Entrants in intermediate industrial products (inputs into construction)

Effective competition in the Southern and East African regions requires independent rivals competing across borders and within domestic markets through innovation and effort, investment, product quality, and prices...

African multinational corporations Competition Regional integration
Working Paper
The regulation of interconnection and regulatory alignment in the Southern African Development Community

This paper analyses interconnection in telecommunications markets in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, focusing on cross-border roaming as well as international interconnection...

Southern African Development Community Competition Regulation
Working Paper
Comparative approaches to key issues in the economic regulation of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

This paper reviews comparative approaches to key issues in economic regulation in four countries of the Southern African Development Community, and how this has been reflected in outcomes in terms of competition, prices, access, and innovation in tel...

Competition Regulation Southern African Development Community
Working Paper
Competitive dynamics of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Low levels of broadband penetration combined with poor quality of services present a challenge to growth and development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...

Competition Fixed and mobile infrastructure Southern African Development Community
Book Chapter
Air transport in Africa: A portrait of capacity and competition in various market segments

From the book: Industries without Smokestacks

Air transport Aviation safety Competition
Journal Article
The causes of high intra-regional road freight rates for food and commodities in Southern Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities

Cross-border logistics Road transportation Southern Africa
Journal Article
The implications for suppliers of the spread of supermarkets in southern Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities

Supermarkets Regional value chains Strategy
Journal Article
The internationalisation of supermarkets and the nature of competitive rivalry in retailing in southern Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities

Supermarkets Regional value chains Strategy
Working Paper
Towards the integration of markets: Competition in road transportation of perishable goods between Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Rapid urbanization and rising income levels in Southern Africa have increased the consumption of perishable and processed food products...

Road transportation Food industry and trade Cross-border logistics
Working Paper
Understanding intra-regional transport: Competition in road transportation between Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Efficient transport links are critical to enhancing the integration of markets in Southern Africa...

Cross-border logistics Road transportation Southern Africa
Working Paper
Air transport in Africa: A portrait of capacity and competition in various market segments

Sub-Saharan Africa’s air transport, though low in overall volume when compared to other regions in the world, has experienced significant growth in the last decade, both in international and domestic traffic...

Air transport Aviation safety Competition
Policy Brief
Made in Africa: The challenge of industrialization Competition Econometrics Globalization
Working Paper
The expansion of regional supermarket chains and implications for local suppliers: A comparison of findings from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Since the early 2000s, there has been rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets in southern Africa...

Supermarkets Regional value chains Strategy
In the media
Made in Africa book mentioned in Nigerian newspaper 'Business Online' column

There is an urgent need to diversify Nigeria’s economy, but what really means economic diversification for Nigerian policy makers?

Industrial development Nigeria Exports
Book
Manufacturing Transformation: Comparative Studies of Industrial Development in Africa and Emerging Asia

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...

Competition Econometrics Globalization
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