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And I am spearheading
regulatory
overhauls in such sectors as medicine and energy as well.
This requires a more supportive
regulatory
environment, technical assistance, as well as connections to suppliers, distributors, and finance providers.
In order to reap the benefits of European integration, it must be achieved through individual interactions, economic and otherwise, facilitated by the removal of
regulatory
barriers.
But the ways governments in developing countries exacerbate the divide through their own
regulatory
policies are much less well understood.
A recent survey of telecommunications
regulatory
agencies conducted by The World Bank found that 23 of the 38 poor countries that responded require ISPs to obtain formal
regulatory
approval before they are allowed to operate.
Indeed, creating a
regulatory
agency is often a crucial component of successful telecommunications reforms, which typically start by privatizing the state-owned monopoly telecom company.
A sound
regulatory
framework and effective enforcement are frequently necessary for introducing competition, as well as to protect investors and consumers in the presence of a newly-privatized firm that might otherwise be able to use its substantial market power to stifle and prevent competition.
Thus, even when
regulatory
agencies are crucial to encouraging competition in telecommunications, regulators are often given control over areas where there is no particular reason for government oversight.
The bottom line is that
regulatory
policies in developing countries, particularly countries in Africa, often bear much of the responsibility for low Internet penetration and slow adoption of technology.
A
regulatory
framework friendly to entry by ISPs and other companies relevant to the technological infrastructure will do a lot more to bring developing countries into the 21st century than donations ever will.
Migrants’ remittance behavior is essentially dictated by the
regulatory
environment and the quality – in terms of speed, cost, security, and accessibility – of products and services offered by banks, money-transfer companies, micro-finance institutions, and informal operators.
The Anglophone strategy focuses on freeing up the remittance market by encouraging competition, relaxing
regulatory
constraints for non-bank operators, offering financial incentives, encouraging technical and financial innovation, and stimulating collaboration among market players.
Achieving this will require overhauling the country’s
regulatory
and legal framework.
Many bankers grumbled about having to throw good money after bad, but they gave in under the threat of greater
regulatory
intervention.
But the current financial market turmoil has shown that there are
regulatory
and supervisory gaps and poorly understood international linkages that call for a global response.
Action in these three areas would help to create a multilateral institution with the authority and expertise to advise countries on supervisory and
regulatory
issues of systemic importance.
In fact, the financial industry’s biggest problems lie elsewhere: hedge funds, investment banks, and other non-bank financial institutions that face less
regulatory
oversight and restrictions (such as on capital standards and leverage) than commercial banks.
Making matters worse, many in Congress have spent the last six years chipping away at it, such as by exempting auto dealers from the CFPB and restricting the budgets of the
regulatory
agencies.
Guterres lamented that “there is no
regulatory
scheme for that type of warfare,” noting that “it is not clear how the Geneva Convention or international humanitarian law applies to it.”
Now, with the establishment of central
regulatory
authorities, the EU has moved to the next stage of financial integration.
And the process for selecting those partners should have the proper
regulatory
framework and concern for competition that the recent bungled auction lacked.
With the right
regulatory
environment and sufficient financing, renewable low-carbon technologies could do for the energy sector what mobile phones have done for telecommunications.
Nigerian officials are anxious to swat away charges that Shell padded its figures for reserves in Nigeria to take advantage of lax oversight and
regulatory
mechanisms and reap millions of dollars in bonus payments.
The policy and
regulatory
mistakes that contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis – and thus to the US financial system’s near-meltdown and the eurozone’s travails – have brought the issue of optimal economic regulation and its relation to democracy to the fore once again.
The role of politics is to elect majorities that can abolish regulations and
regulatory
bodies.
Others around the world similarly oppose
regulatory
institutions, but for very different reasons.
At the other end of the spectrum are technocratic super-defenders of
regulatory
bodies who believe that politicians and electorates are hopelessly confused, uneducated, and often corrupt.
The challenge is even greater because some
regulatory
agencies must be multilateral, or at least intergovernmental, given the global nature of much economic activity.
In the hands of a capable entrepreneur, a technological breakthrough can be worth billions of dollars, owing to
regulatory
protections and the winner-take-all nature of global markets.
But I also understand the potential usefulness of
regulatory
measures like targets for renewable energy, bans on incandescent light bulbs, and mandates for the use of biofuels.
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