Competitiveness and Competition: The Need for a Pragmatic Approach (original) (raw)

2010

Abstract

This article is inspired by a public debate on the necessity to improve the rules for a competition in a certain area, e.g. the market for agricultural products. The emphasis put on the key role of a branch within a whole economy, as a starting point in rethinking the regulation of competition, rises the issue of the fundamental conditions which are defining the competitiveness capacity of an economy - production factors, competitiveness based on efficiency or on innovation. As we believe the Romanian economy is based a little bit on everything defining the competition power, which is not necessary, an advantage, but rather a result of some inconsistent public policies in carrying on the structural reforms, there is a strong need for a type of regulation which has to be inclusive in a correct mix of public policies. Only a good structural development, pointing out for what may be a key economic branch, is desirable if we want to see a real synergy between what has to be the country&...

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