“Competition and Inclusive Growth”
10 - 13 November 2015
The 4th BRICS International Competition Conference will take place in Durban from 10 to 13 Novermber 2015.
The Conference is attended by BRICS Member Countries, competition authority members, non-governmental advisors – NGAs (lawyers, academics) and others (government observers). Only persons who have received invitations from organisers are entitled to attend the conference.
In his forword to an brochure on the event, South African Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, says that BRICS is also an increasingly important voice in global economic governance and coordination.The Conference is therefore a very useful forum to reect on our experiences on competition policies and their relationship with our broader policy goals. The five BRICS economies are all concerned with how best to promote competitive, balanced and dynamic economies that help their societies achieve national development goals. Competition policy has increasingly come to the fore as an instrument to help achieve these objectives.
This Conference has a BRICS bias, drawing strongly on the policy, operational and intellectual capacity from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It will look at critical issues that affect all our economies:
- How competition policy interfaces with the policy challenges of inequality and inclusive growth
- The connection between growth and innovation
- Competition in socially-sensitive markets
- Addressing abuse of dominance in domestic markets
- Public interest considerations in areas such as jobs and small business development.
