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Anticompetitive practices on public procurement: Evidence from Brazilian electronic biddingsUsing 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 FraudWorking 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 integrationWorking Paper
The regulation of interconnection and regulatory alignment in the Southern African Development CommunityThis 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 RegulationWorking Paper
Comparative approaches to key issues in the economic regulation of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and ZimbabweThis 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 CommunityWorking Paper
Competitive dynamics of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and ZimbabweLow 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 CommunityBook Chapter
Air transport in Africa: A portrait of capacity and competition in various market segmentsFrom the book: Industries without Smokestacks
Air transport Aviation safety CompetitionJournal Article
The causes of high intra-regional road freight rates for food and commodities in Southern AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
Cross-border logistics Road transportation Southern AfricaJournal Article
The implications for suppliers of the spread of supermarkets in southern AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
Supermarkets Regional value chains StrategyJournal Article
The internationalisation of supermarkets and the nature of competitive rivalry in retailing in southern AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Regional Growth Opportunities
Supermarkets Regional value chains StrategyWorking Paper
Towards the integration of markets: Competition in road transportation of perishable goods between Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and ZimbabweRapid 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 logisticsWorking Paper
Understanding intra-regional transport: Competition in road transportation between Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and ZimbabweEfficient transport links are critical to enhancing the integration of markets in Southern Africa...
Cross-border logistics Road transportation Southern AfricaWorking Paper
Air transport in Africa: A portrait of capacity and competition in various market segmentsSub-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 CompetitionPolicy Brief
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The expansion of regional supermarket chains and implications for local suppliers: A comparison of findings from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and ZimbabweSince the early 2000s, there has been rapid growth in the number and spread of supermarkets in southern Africa...
Supermarkets Regional value chains StrategyIn the media
Made in Africa book mentioned in Nigerian newspaper 'Business Online' columnThere is an urgent need to diversify Nigeria’s economy, but what really means economic diversification for Nigerian policy makers?
Industrial development Nigeria ExportsBook
Manufacturing Transformation: Comparative Studies of Industrial Development in Africa and Emerging AsiaThis 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