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Anticompetitive practices and food-price inflation The South Asian context

By: Paul, Anusree.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Kathmandu South Asia Watch on Trade, Economic and Environment 2012Description: viii, 39p.ISBN: 978-9937-8504-3-8.Subject(s): SAWTEE | Trade | South Asia | Food | World Market | Food-priceGenre/Form: AgricultureOnline resources: Click here to access online Summary: Distortions in the food market lead to anticompetitive behaviour and can cause both high domestic trade margins and high storage and transport costs. These tend to increase the price differential between the farm gate and the retail level in South Asian countries. Typical distortions include: barriers to entry in domestic trading services, barriers to intra-country commodity movements, state interventions in the market, and inadequate marketing and transport infrastructure. South Asian countries suffer from all four problems in different degrees. Such anticompetitive practices are prevalent due to the absence of effective competition regulation. Competition regulation can play an important role in containing food-price rise, especially by addressing supply-side factors. It is useful in the form of both competition policy and competition law. [From executive summary]
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Distortions in the food market lead to anticompetitive behaviour and can cause both high domestic trade margins and high storage and transport costs. These tend to increase the price differential between the farm gate and the retail level in South Asian countries. Typical distortions include: barriers to entry in domestic trading services, barriers to intra-country commodity movements, state interventions in the market, and inadequate marketing and transport infrastructure. South Asian countries suffer from all four problems in different degrees. Such anticompetitive practices are prevalent due to the absence of effective competition regulation. Competition regulation can play an important role in containing food-price rise, especially by addressing supply-side factors. It is useful in the form of both competition policy and competition law. [From executive summary]

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