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Promoting Competition in Local Markets in Mexico: A Subnational Application of the World Bank Group's Markets and Competition Policy Assessment Tool

dc.contributor.author World Bank
dc.date.accessioned 2018-10-22T21:44:20Z
dc.date.available 2018-10-22T21:44:20Z
dc.date.issued 2018-06-01
dc.description.abstract Stagnant productivity growth and high disparities in productivity levels across Mexican states have been holding back economic growth. In general, Mexico’s federal government has a solid competition policy framework in place. Subnational regulations in transport, agriculture, tourism, retail, and other sectors are holding back the potential of local economies to grow and provide consumers with affordable goods. Anticompetitive regulations for professionals such as notaries also increase the cost of doing business. The World Bank Group (WBG) was requested to address a critical gap and to pilot a reform-oriented engagement on competition policy at the subnational level. WBG engaged to motivate an actionable reform plan that can unlock competition in key markets at the local level. This note discusses the main findings of the WBG’s markets and competition policy assessment tool (MCPAT) application to various subnational governments in Mexico and the initial reform experience. It draws on the results of multiple pieces of analysis and implementation support projects since 2012 to assess, identify, prioritize, and modify regulations that restrict competition at the subnational level in key markets. This note is structured as follows: section 1 gives an introduction, section 2 discusses the international experience on the role of competition at the local level for development. Section 3 provides a brief presentation of the methodological steps of the MCPAT subnational application. Section 4 discusses incidences of anti-competitive regulation (some of which have been removed) to exemplify their harmful effect. Section 5 provides several examples of how to prioritize and design reforms based on how government interventions at the subnational level interact with particular features of subnational Mexican markets, as well as based on their feasibility and their potential effects. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/750671539354775059/Promoting-Competition-in-Local-Markets-in-Mexico-A-Subnational-Application-of-the-World-Bank-Groups-Markets-and-Competition-Policy-Assessment-Tool
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30587
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject COMPETITION POLICY
dc.subject MARKET ACCESS
dc.subject BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
dc.subject REGULATION
dc.subject LOCAL GOVERNANCE
dc.subject SUBNATIONAL GOVERNMENT
dc.subject TRUCKING
dc.subject REGULATORY REFORM
dc.title Promoting Competition in Local Markets in Mexico en
dc.title.subtitle A Subnational Application of the World Bank Group's Markets and Competition Policy Assessment Tool en
dc.type Report en
dc.type Rapport fr
dc.type Informe es
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.crossref.title Promoting Competition in Local Markets in Mexico
okr.date.disclosure 2018-10-12
okr.doctype Economic & Sector Work :: Other Public Sector Study
okr.doctype Economic & Sector Work
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/750671539354775059/Promoting-Competition-in-Local-Markets-in-Mexico-A-Subnational-Application-of-the-World-Bank-Groups-Markets-and-Competition-Policy-Assessment-Tool
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/30587
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 090224b08642e1ba_2_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 30443574
okr.identifier.report AUS0000133
okr.imported true en
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/750671539354775059/pdf/AUS0000133-WP-REVISED-P164185-OUO-9.pdf en
okr.region.administrative Latin America & Caribbean
okr.region.country Mexico
okr.topic Public Sector Development :: Public Sector Administrative and Civil Service Reform
okr.topic Public Sector Development :: Public Sector Management and Reform
okr.topic Private Sector Development :: Competition Policy
okr.topic Private Sector Development :: Competitiveness and Competition Policy
okr.topic Private Sector Development :: Enterprise Development & Reform
okr.topic Private Sector Development :: Legal Regulation and Business Environment
okr.topic Governance :: Local Government
okr.unit Latin America and Caribbean (GMTLC)
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