Unfair Competition
Anti-competitive practices are business or government practices that unlawfully prevent or reduce competition in a market. The debate about the morality of certain business practices termed as being anti-competitive has continued both in the study of the history of economics and in the popular culture. Anti-trust laws differ among state and federal laws to ensure businesses do not engage in competitive practices that harm other, usually smaller, businesses or consumers. These laws are formed to promote healthy competition within a free market by limiting the abuse of monopoly power. Competition allows companies to compete in order for products and services …
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IMF: International Monetary Fund · 30 November 2023 English
Geoeconomic fragmentation (GEF) is becoming entrenched worldwide, and the European Union (EU) is not immune to its effects. This paper takes stock of GEF policies impinging on—and adopted by—the EU …
the existence of State Aid rules to limit unfair competition within the Single Market. The on- and off-budget …
World Bank Group · 30 November 2023 English
This Background Note to the Kenya Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) highlights the urgent need to scale access to clean cooking in order to reduce energy poverty and mitigate …
reversal in energy transition gains Unfair competition from traditional fuels that are unregulated/taxed …
World Bank Group · 27 November 2023 English
The state, as an owner of businesses, competes and collaborates with the private sector, and this involvement has profound implications for investment and growth. Governments actively participate in commercial markets …
ciency. Resource transfers to BOSs result in unfair competition with private sector firms. For example, … regulatory advantage of BOSs is associated with unfair competition with private firms. These less defensible …
Eurofound · 27 November 2023 English
illegitimate cost advantage and may promote unfair competition. Given the multidimensional nature of non-compliance …
World Bank Group · 27 November 2023 English
The state, as an owner of businesses, competes and collaborates with the private sector, and this involvement has profound implications for investment and growth. Governments actively participate in commercial markets …
advantages of BOSs are often associated with unfair competition with private firms. Such advantages typically …
PIIE: Peterson Institute for International Economics · 27 November 2023
No one knows the extent to which the world of digital commerce would be curtailed through the imposition by foreign governments of tariffs in the absence of this prohibition. [...] …
exception, and the inability to fully address unfair competition from state- owned enterprises. The costs …
World Bank Group · 27 November 2023 English
The state, as an owner of businesses, competes and collaborates with the private sector, and this involvement has profound implications for investment and growth. Governments actively participate in commercial markets …
ciency. Resource transfers to BOSs result in unfair competition with private sector firms. For example, … regulatory advantage of BOSs is associated with unfair competition with private firms. These less defensible …
IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency · 24 November 2023 English
Renewable energy
subsidised grain and biofuel imports create unfair competition for the local agricultural sector. These …
ODI: Overseas Development Institute · 22 November 2023 English
Although the national government, which took on the initial loan from the World Bank, bore the overall cost of the depreciation, the monies available to the DFLA for on-lending were …
Although the private sector views this as unfair competition, municipalities welcome this more favourable …
PMRC: Policy Monitoring and Research Center · 21 November 2023 English
In the context of the ongoing petroleum sector reforms, the Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) with the support of the Ministry of Energy, commissioned a rapid diagnostic assessment study …
the country; and illegal fuel supply and unfair competition from foreign fuel transporters. Last but … Zambian owned petroleum transporters from unfair competition from foreign OMCs and transporters. Since … illegal activities have continued to pose unfair competition in an environment which is already highly …
