Should Developed Countries Require Developing Countries to Adopt Competition Laws? Lessons from the Economic Literature

"This paper examines some economic and institutional aspects of competition law and policy, with a particular focus on the implications for developing countries and specifically for the countries of ASEAN (the Association of South east Asian Nations). While “competition policy” is capable of many definitions (including some in which it is coextensive with microeconomic or structural reform), I concentrate on competition policy in its trade practices or antitrust sense, noting that it is competition policy in that sense which has come into increasingly widespread application in developing countries in recent years."