Competition law officials and economic policy decision makers in developing countries often face a dilemma. They are often told by foreign advisers that they should adopt a form of competition law that relies on economics to provide the standard for competition law liability – i.e., the norms...

In Eleanor Fox and Mor Bakhoum's new book titled Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Developments, and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa (Oxford University Press, 2019), the authors offer a comprehensive look at the role that competition law can play in promoting economic development as...

Prior to the recent commencement of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area, (AfCFTA), there was no region-wide competition treaty in Africa. Concerted efforts have been invested in uniting broader political, economic and legal policies at sub-Saharan Africa level...

This paper shares perspectives and experiences from South Africa in pursuing development goals through trade and competition. It was prepared as background material for the 2021 OECD Global Forum on Competition discussion on trade, development and competition.

The idealism of his thesis notwithstanding, Cheng’s book, in his own words, is reconciliatory rather than revolutionary. His proposal that developing countries enforce competition laws in the spirit of ‘informed divergence’ rather than converge to a norm, nevertheless, recognizes a...