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            <description><![CDATA[In the developing world, disease and poverty are interdependent making access to essential medicines at affordable prices even more critical. 80% of the two billion people worldwide without access to essential medicines live in low income countries. As such, competitive rivalry in the pharmaceutical industry can improve access to medicines by reducing prices and through motivating brand companies to challenge existing patent drugs and create new and improved medicines. Furthermore, upon expiration of patent drugs, competition encourages generic companies to provide less expensive alternatives of medicines.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In April 2017, the COMESA Competition Commission (CCC) conditionally approved a large merger between Brasseries Internationales Holdings (BIH) Ltd and Carlsberg Malawi Ltd (Carlsberg). BIH is the holding company of Castel Group, a French beverages company. The second party to the merger, Carlsberg, is a beverages manufacturer participating solely in the Malawian market in Africa.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Centre for Competition Regulation and Economic Development's Quarterly Review analyses developments in competition policy and jurisprudence throughout the African continent. It contains a number of analytical articles.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Competition authorities across the region are gradually improving their capacity to enforce effectively despite significant resource constraints. 2015 and 2016 have been landmark years in this regard! Just recently, the Namibian Competition Commission conducted its first raid at the premises of Puma Energy in relation to allegations of excessive pricing in aviation fuel supply.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[This Short Learning Programme (SLP) will provide a strong theoretical and practical foundation for understanding and applying key issues in finance for competition and regulation. It is targeted at staff employed at competition authorities, economic regulators, departments within government and regulated enterprises, private practitioners and students. Submitted by the Centre for Competition Regulation and Economic Development]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) at the University of Johannesburg is honoured to host the Short Learning Programme (SLP) in Financial Analysis for Economic Regulation and Competition the second year running. Accounting and finance are key areas of work at economic regulators and play a critical role in the determination of tariffs and the assessment of firm conduct. Different costing methodologies can result in very different tariffs for regulated entities or different evaluations of a firm’s conduct. In capital intensive industries, capital investments can account for the bulk of a regulated entity’s costs, and therefore the costs of capital need to be carefully weighed when arriving at a final tariff or evaluating a firm’s conduct.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED), in association with National Treasury, has the pleasure of inviting you to the following workshop: "Competition, Barriers to Entry and Inclusive Growth: Encouraging Entry and Rivalry in the Telecommunications Sector" Prices of voice communication have come down significantly in the last few years, saving consumers billions of rands. This was a direct consequence of ICASA’s decision to reduce mobile termination rates and introduce asymmetry between the incumbents and the challengers. Given the changes in this dynamic sector it is important to evaluate progress on regulating for competition and removing bottlenecks to meaningful participation in the sector by firms.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) is proud to present the latest issue of the CCRED Quarterly Review. Please follow the links below to access the content:  Quarterly Competition Case Update Barriers to Entry in Retail Banking: Capitec Aggregators in the Mobile Money Industry and Related Competition Issues Barriers to Entry in Grocery Retail Reflection on Futurelife/Pioneer Food Merger  In the Review you can also find details of the 2nd Annual Competition and Economic Regulation (ACER) Week, Southern Africa to be hosted in Livingstone, Zambia from 08 to 12 March 2016. The conference programme and course outlines for the SLPs are available on the ACER website as well.]]></description>
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