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Improving Investment Sentiment
Economic
Times, May 28, 2012
By Pradeep S Mehta
When Coca Cola,
among other foreign consumer goods manufacturers, was
allowed to return to India in 1990s, it was not because we
needed Coke, but to send the right signal to the world
that we were interested in doing business with the whole
world. Other than promoting healthy competition, our
domestic capital availability was limited. We need foreign
investment to meet our growing needs, for example, in the
infrastructure sector. We would need over a
trillion-dollar capital in the near future to sustain our
growth. The problem is that many cannot see the big
picture, or myopically pursue their self-interests.
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Unlevel playing field is wasteful
The
Financial Express, May 21, 2012
By Pradeep S Mehta
India is fraught
with examples of distortion of competitive neutrality and
wasteful subsidies and bailout packages. It is time we
looked into the regulation of such grants as well, and
wherever possible to provide cash support to the poor. The
way forward is through the proposed National Competition
Policy, which has addressed all these issues in depth. It
is hoped that it will be adopted by the government
sometime in not too distant a future.
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Will RBI be a better judge for banking mergers?
Business
Standard, May 09, 2012
By Pradeep S Mehta
Ever since the
Competition Commission of India (CCI) started taking baby
steps to regulate the jungle of competition abuses in the
country, and some very successful cases, many started
howling for an exemption from its bite. The latest one is
from banking circles asking for an exemption from CCI’s
remit to review mergers under the Competition Act, 2002,
in that sector. Other strong contenders include the
Department of Telecommunications seeking an exemption for
the telecom sector. These moves are tragic and will affect
the integrity of our economic governance system, and
should be discouraged as strongly as the demand being made
for exemptions.
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Cartels & Information Exchange
The Financial
Express, May 02, 2012
By Pradeep S Mehta
In India, it
also appears as if the Competition Act, 2002, has not
provided for justifiable reasons for exemption, as Section
3 generally describes all such agreements as void. Since
there are some information exchange platforms that can
yield pro-competitive outcomes, there might also be a need
for Competition Commission of India (CCI) to take a lead
in calling for necessary amendments to ensure that, as is
the case in other jurisdictions, only those information
exchange arrangements that have an appreciable adverse
effect on competition are prohibited.
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