Pride and Prejudice : Investigations & Mergers in Digital Markets from a Developing World's Viewpoint

While in the developed world there has been a growing interest in studying, opining, critiquing, and publicly acknowledging their mea culpa in a very lax application of agencies’ competition enforcement in digital markets, agencies in developing countries have been trying to play catch up. We want to view the problem from the particular lens of an agency in a developing or less devel- oped country (“LDC”) because certain conditions, present in the developed world, may not yet have a hold in the developing world; and also because even if some other conditions can initially appear to be only relevant to developing countries, they may have important lessons to teach to the developed world when looking at isolated regions, groups of more at-risk, or disadvantaged consumers, or they may simply offer a different and novel way of viewing a problem with a wider lens than those currently being considered