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Too many governments in Africa are clinging to state telecommunications monopolies as an easy source of revenue (or still less sensibly, as a perceived source of a few hundred or thousand jobs), while inadvertently strangling the introduction of new technologies.
In addition, China must reduce administrative discretion, introducing sensible, predictable regulation to address natural monopolies and externalities.
To continue with the privatization of the natural monopolies that will give a criminal and corrupt elite another chance to fill their pockets, may require extinguishing even the vestiges of democracy that existed under Yeltsin, thus pushing Russia on the way to a “liberal dictatorship.”
We praise competition, not monopolies, in economic life.
Income disparities have widened, owing in part to the continuation of distortionary policies in various sectors, including the domination of China’s four large state-owned banks, the near-zero royalty on mining, and monopolies in major industries, including telecommunications, power, and financial services.
Politically connected businessmen, such as the Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim or LUKoil president Vagit Alekperov, used their influence to make fortunes through resource extraction, state-protected monopolies, or privatization of government property.
Sending money to some countries is now allowed only through formal banking channels, and this has created virtual monopolies while also preventing remittance money from reaching rural areas where banks don’t operate.
In many Arab countries, incumbent public and private firms – especially in critical sectors like financial services, telecommunications, and energy – enjoy significant advantages, including outright protection, onerous regulations that deter market entry by new players, and inadequate limits on natural monopolies.
First, because most technology-based monopoly power does not violate existing antitrust laws, regulating IT will require new measures to weaken monopolies.
As with corporate monopolies, the consumers (students) are often seen as a homogeneous mass, where all students can be educated according to the same pedagogical approach.
Many laws on licensing, monopolies, competition, and state purchasing that target the sources of (and opportunities for) corruption are now on the books.
The reason why there still is no good interconnection between the Spanish and French power grids is not a lack of financing, but the unwillingness of monopolies on both sides of the border to open their markets.
Throughout the late twentieth century, the conventional wisdom was that this market failure could best be rectified by introducing another one: private monopolies, created through stringent patents strictly enforced.
He clearly believes that the state has a powerful role to play in promoting growth, revitalizing core industries, and reforming and regulating natural monopolies.
Land planning must be overhauled, with industrial monopolies broken up and development goals set according to population, resource volume, and the capacity to absorb pollution.
Markets will be purged of criminals and monopolies; honest competition will begin to operate.
For more than a hundred years, America has had strong anti-trust laws, which broke up private monopolies in many areas, such as oil.
In some emerging markets, telecom monopolies are stifling development of the Internet, and hence economic growth.
In others, monopolies in trade deprive countries of the advantages of international competition, while monopolies in cement significantly raise the price of construction.
Of course, China does have huge firms, but they are inefficient state-owned behemoths that owe their size and profitability to their legal monopolies and government subsidies.
And economists have long known that market failures – including poorly functioning labor markets, credit market imperfections, knowledge or environmental externalities, and monopolies – can interfere with reaping those gains.
Inefficiencies were masked by generous subsidies from the national treasury, and a combination of vested interests – socialist ideologues, bureaucratic managers, trade unions, and monopolies – kept it beyond political criticism.
Putin clinched his authority over the state sector in 2007, during his second term, with the creation of vast corporations that have since expanded substantially, with cheap state funding, often securing monopolies in their industries.
They lie in the realm of optimal pricing and marketing mechanisms, regulation of monopolies, natural-resource management, public-goods provision, and finance.
For example, Smith viewed competition as a basic condition of the invisible hand’s operation, because monopolies and oligopolies exploit consumers and restrict production.
Just as monopolies are bad for markets and politics, business representation in the private sector would benefit from more competition.
Nowhere are those risks more apparent than with today’s information-technology monopolies.
Legally mandated breakups – such as of Standard Oil in 1911 and AT&T in 1982 – are rare, and regulating prices charged by “natural monopolies” (such as electric utilities) is uncommon.
Today's intellectual property regime protects innovators in advanced countries by issuing temporary monopolies, i.e., patents.
Competition policy, however, faces great difficulty in dealing with industries in which technical breakthroughs can create apparently instant monopolies.
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