AFR Competition

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Interventions will focus on markets within priority sectors for Sub- Saharan Africa (SSA) including key inputs for business operations. Activities fall under two components: 1) Reform Implementation which will focus on innovative interventions to tackle competition issues in key sectors for SSA. This will include advisory on procompetitive market regulation and sectoral policies, and advisory on effective antitrust rules and enforcement. This component will be complemented with capacity building to a broad range of stakeholders (competition agencies, sector regulators, private sector, media, academia, think-tanks etc.) on economic and legal analysis. 2) Knowledge generation, actionable analytics and advocacy aimed at providing the necessary elements to help overcome obstacles to implement fundamental market reforms that hold back sector performance in SSA. This will include developing and disseminating knowledge and analytic products, for example application of the WBG Markets and Competition Policy Assessment Tool (MCPAT) to selected jurisdictions/sectors, data collection and indicator generation on effective competition policy frameworks.