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Welcome to the website of the Centre for Regulation and Competition (CRC), a partnership between internationally recognised institutions in the UK, Africa and Asia to provide research, advisory services and capacity building relating to regulation and competition.

The CRC conducts research into rules-based systems and processes of regulation and competition in developing countries and their contribution to poverty reduction. The research is, in part, a response to a perspective that holds that poverty reduction in developing countries would be better served by the adoption of a more market-oriented development strategy. The CRC's work attempts to correct deficiencies in the literature on development, and contribute to policy and practice in developing countries.
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Featured Publication

Regulatory Governance In Developing Countries
Minogue, M. and Carino, L. 2006

The past decade has seen a quickening of the pace and extent of privatisation reforms in developing countries. An associated set of post-privatisation policies has seen the introduction of new and changed regulatory institutions. This book critically reviews regulatory reforms in developing countries, with a particular focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the 'best practice' model of reform, the significance of institutions of regulatory governance, and the impact of post-privatisation governance on development and poverty reduction agendas.

Download the first chapter free by kind permission of Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd