Learning
The Service Sector
Harper discusses various aspects of competition policy in the service sector, highlighting its unique challenges and regulatory needs.
Managing the Process
In this part, Harper explains how the review was initiated and structured. Harper recounted receiving a request from the responsible minister to chair a committee of inquiry. The minister outlined the government’s intention to address specific concerns about supermarkets, such as fuel prices and market power, and to incorporate these issues into a broader competition policy review.
Recommendations
This section delves into the recommendations made by the 2015 Competition Policy Review in Australia. The discussion is structured around three main areas: competition policy, competition law, and competition institutions.
Setting Priorities in Competition Policy Reform
Harper explains the process of prioritizing recommendations. They focused on issues that were “crying out for attention” or could be addressed relatively easily, such as reforming pharmacy location and ownership rules and deregulating retail trading hours in certain states.
2015 Competition Policy Review
This interview discusses the 2015 Competition Policy Review in Australia, led by Ian Harper. The review, often referred to as “Hilmer Mark Two,” was commissioned by the government nearly 20 years after the original Hilmer Review (The National Competition Policy Review) of the 1990s.
Matthew Butlin
Good Regulatory Systems
Matthew Butlin, a long-term leader of regulatory reform in Australia, talks about issues in the design of good regulatory systems, especially the importance of coordination across objectives and agencies.
Aaditya Mattoo
Digital Technologies and Policy Reforms
The World Bank’s Chief Economist for East Asia and the Pacific, Aaditya Mattoo, argues that diffusion of digital technologies and policy reforms in the services sector are posed to create opportunities and play an increasing role in the economic development of the region.
Dr James Ding
Structural reform agenda
Markus Jelitto
Benefits of the reference paper
Markus Jelitto
Implementation
Bernard Hoekman
Beyond Dom Market
Bernard Hoekman
Focus on how
Bernard Hoekman
Small Firms
Basaria Tiara L Gaol
Benefits of the use of STRI
Carmen Prado Wagner
What matters for mobile
Carmen Prado Wagner
ITU Data Hub
Ramonette Serafica
Reg Reforms and Positive Developments
Senior Research Fellow, Philippines Institute forDevelopment Studies (PIDS). Policy objectives in this sector concern productivity and growth in the context of trade, but there is always another interest and that is inclusion and the contribution of policy and institutions to that goal. Here are some remarks from Ramonette Serafica from the Philippines Instiute for Development Studies on that connection.
Phumjit Sri-udomkajorn
Reg reforms and success factors
Phumjit Sri-udomkajorn, Researcher, Thailand Development Researcher Institute. Phumjit speaks about other aspects of regulatory reform, and also her assessment of drivers of success in reform.
Intan Ramli
Good Regulatory Practice
Intan Ramli from ERIA talks about the benefits for services of the application of the principles of Good Regulatory Practice.
Renee Hancher
2023 APEC Blueprint on GRP
Renee Hancher from USTR discusses why regulatory practice matters and outlines the scope of the 2023 APEC Blueprint on GRP.
Basaria Tiara
Structural reform in Indonesia
Basaria Tiara L Gaol of the Ministry of Trade, Indonesia, discusses recent developments in structural reform in Indonesia and their implications for services trade and investment.
John Drummond
Part 1: The APEC Index
John Drummond from the OECD reviews the challenges of setting policy priorities and the value of policy analysis tools, the APEC Index in particular.
John Drummond
Part 2: Application of the APEC index
The OECD’s John Drummond provides concrete examples of the application of the APEC index.
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