Promoting Competition and Creating Contestable Markets in Armenia
This policy note has been produced under the competition reform assessment ASA with the objective of identifying key constraints to competition in Armenia and providing recommendations on a set of actionable reforms that could help foster market co...
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| Format: | Policy Note |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/885101564063866621/Promoting-Competition-and-Creating-Contestable-Markets-in-Armenia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32280 |
| Summary: | This policy note has been produced under
the competition reform assessment ASA with the objective of
identifying key constraints to competition in Armenia and
providing recommendations on a set of actionable reforms
that could help foster market contestability and competition
in key sectors and across the economy. In particular, the
policy note seeks to identify a menu of priority reform
areas for potential engagement between the World Bank Group
(WBG) and the government of Armenia (GoA). Information for
this note was initially collected during a mission held in
September 2018 and was subsequently validated with relevant
agencies of the GoA. The assessment employs the markets and
competition policy assessment toolkit of the markets and
competition policy team of the WBG’s equitable growth,
finance and institutions Vice Presidency. In addition,
selected sections of the OECD’s product market Regulation
Indicators questionnaire were employed to gain a sense of
how Armenia compares to peer countries in the region on some
specific regulatory issues which may restrict competition.
Finally, a conference was held in June 2019 based on the
findings emerging from this policy note and discussions with
key policy makers during this conference have been used to
develop a plan of action for engagement between the WBG and
GoA in the short term. A summary of this conference and the
action plan are included in a supplementary note delivered
under this ASA. |
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