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Effectiveness of Technical Assistance, Socio-Economic Development, and the Absorptive Capacity of Competition Authorities, The

  • Author: UN, ECLAC
  • Publication date: December 2006
  • Page count: 32
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 06.II.G.150

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Using survey data on technical assistance projects that was collected by the International Competition Network's Competition Policy Implementation Working Group during 2004 and 2005, the author estimates the effect of different types of technical assistance on several performance measures of recipient competition authorities. According to the author, a clear pattern of results emerges. Taken at face value, and supposing that maximizing the positive effect on recipient authority performance is the sole objective of a technical assistance programme in competition law and enforcement, these findings have implications for the mix of technical assistance activities that could be offered to competition authorities.