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Regulating development : evidence from Africa and Latin America

Regulating Development examines the impact that regulation – good or bad – can have on the development of poorer societies. It opens with a succinct review of critical issues, including the implications of the spread of intellectual property rights legislation and the role of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
eBook, English, 2006
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K., 2006
1 online resource (1 recurso en línea (xii, 309 páginas)).
9781845429850, 9781845424992, 9781847204981, 1845429850, 1847204988, 1845424999
1028001882
Contents:Preface1. IntroductionEdmund AmannPart I: General Considerations2. Creating the Conditions for International Business Expansion: The Impact of Regulation on Economic Growth in Developing Countries – A Cross-Country AnalysisHossein Jalilian, Colin Kirkpatrick and David Parker3. The World Trade Organisation and Domestic RegulationPeter Holmes4. Learning to Love Patents: Capacity Building, Intellectual Property and the (Re)production of Governance Norms in the ‘Developing World’Christopher MayPart II: The Latin American Experience5. From the Developmental to the Regulatory State: The Transformation of the Government’s Impact on the Brazilian EconomyEdmund Amann and Werner Baer6. Brazilian Regulatory Agencies: Early Appraisal and Looming Challenges Andrea Goldstein and José Claudio Linhares Pires7. Corporate Governance, Regulation and the Lingering Role of the State in the Post Privatized Brazilian Steel IndustryEdmund Amann, João Carlos Ferraz and Germano Mendes de PaulaPart III: The African Experience8. Privatization and Regulation in South Africa: An EvaluationAfeikhena Jerome9. A Comparative Analysis of the Performance of Public and Private Water Utilities in AfricaColin Kirkpatrick, David Parker and Yin-Fang Zhang10. Why Regulations Matter: A Small-Business PerspectiveJudi Hudson11. The Changing Regulatory Environment and its Implications for the Performance of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in GhanaErnest Aryeetey and Ama Asantewah Ahene12. Regulating for Competition: The Case of Telkom in South AfricaOludele A. Akinboade and Fungai SibandaIndex
"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
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