Market Structure : Can Healthy Competition Bring Relief to the Poor? / Eric Schaling, Angela Urban.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaling, Eric, author.

Urban, Angela, author.

Series:

SAGE business cases.

SAGE business cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : Wits Business School, 2025.

Summary:

In September 2021, Talitha Govansamy,1 advisor to Ebrahim Patel, Minister of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC), considered how competition, or the lack thereof, affected pricing and therefore attainability of products and services in the long term, especially for the poor. She was concerned primarily with two particular sectors, namely grocery retail and mobile telecommunications: the Competition Commission had investigated pricing in these sectors over the previous four years because of concerns raised at the level of government and civil society about the impact of dominance and potentially anti-competitive practices in these industries. As she read the findings, she asked herself: "What can government, in particular the DTIC, do to build an equitable system of trade and to promote healthy competition practices? Can this in turn bring some relief to the poor?".

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ISBN:

9781071972205

1071972200

OCLC:

1483992827