As part of the World Bank Group's Global Engagement on Competition Policy, this conference will include leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners from across the world, as well as senior officials from international organizations. This event will contribute to inform the joint efforts of the Trade & Competitiveness and Poverty Global Practices of the World Bank Group to understand the relationship between (lack of) competition and the Bank Group's twin goals.
This conference follows an international call for papers to foster empirical research in order to better understand the effects of lack of competition on welfare and contribute to World Bank Group’s efforts towards increasing effectiveness of competition policy implementation in client countries.
In addition, this one-day event will feature a roundtable discussion of award-winning stories from the 2014-2015 Competition Advocacy Contest: Inclusive growth for shared prosperity organized by the World Bank Group in collaboration with the International Competition Network (ICN).
