assessing impacts of competition – experience from odi research
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Assessing impacts of competition – experience from ODI research. Karen Ellis Head of Private Sector & Markets Programme, ODI. Project assessing economic impact of competition and related policy. Policy context & market environment. Degree of competition. Market outcomes. Countries: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Assessing impacts of competition – experience
from ODI researchKaren Ellis
Head of Private Sector & Markets Programme, ODI
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Project assessing economic impact of
competition and related policy
Policy context &market environment
Degree of competition
Market outcomes
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Countries and markets analysed
Countries:
• Bangladesh• Vietnam• Ghana• Kenya• Zambia
Markets:
• Sugar• Cement• Mobile phones• Beer
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The sugar market
Country Number of firms (sugar mills / refiners)
State ownership
Market shares of leading firm
Imports as % domestic consumption
Kenya 8 Yes, the state owns nearly all mills
54% (firm with most private sector participation)
15%
Zambia 3 No 93% 0%
Ghana 0 N/A N/A 100%
Vietnam 40 Yes, high degree of state ownership
9% 4%
Bangladesh 16 SOE mills & 4 private refiners
Yes, State owns nearly all mills
47% 10%
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Comparing efficiency
Average sugar production (tonnes produced per hectare of sugar
grown)
1
1.4
5
15.3
0 5 10 15 20
Kenya
Bangladesh
Vietnam
Zambia
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Sugar Retail Price (USD)/kg at PPP rates
(2007 figures)
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Cement market structure
Country Number of firms
State Ownership
Estimated market
shares of leading firm
Head of population
(millions) per cement
company
Kenya 3, but with joint ownership
1 SOE 65% 13.6
Zambia 3 No 85% 4.42
Ghana 2 No 64% 12.2
Vietnam 90
33 SOEs 40% 0.99
Bangladesh 34 1 SOE 12% 4.8
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Retail Cement Price Per 50kg Bag (in US$) , 2007/8
figures
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Cement: percentage change in price between
2007 and 2010
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Mobile telecoms benefits
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Mobiles marketAverage per minute
mobile tariff (2007 figures in USD)
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Zambia´s International Gateway Problem
• Only one international gateway exchange operated by monopoly
• State charged v. high price for international gateway licence
• $18 million, compared to $214,000 in Kenya & $50,000 in Uganda
• Drove up prices and distorted whole mobiles market, increasing the costs of doing business in the country.
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Peak rate 1 minute call to the USA in 2007
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Average per minute mobile tariff (2007 figures in USD)
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Director for Mergers and Monopolies at the Zambian Competition Commission:
‘Many times it becomes very difficult to actually show the benefits. Of course, a report like this makes it much easier to advocate to the government. With our persistence, we kept going to the government and highlighting the benefits of competition, showing them the statistics as such a report has done. And eventually we have gotten through to the government. And the fee for the international gateway has fallen ...’
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The Impact
• June 2010, Govt reduced license fee to $350,000
• Licences awarded to the 2 private operators
• Within 1 month, both private operators reduced international tariffs by 40-80%
• “I think it’s a huge benefit to the Zambian consumers and also to the business community.” (Director of Regulation, ZICTA)