Importance of Competition & Regulatory Reforms in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Overview

World leaders adopted a set of ambitious goals for addressing persisting challenges of poverty, inequality and environmental degradation - under the aegis of the United Nations. These goals referred to as SGDs have come into effect from January 01, 2016. Governments worldwide are expected to develop national framework and programmes to achieve these 17 SDGs by 2030. In this paper, CUTS highlights how competition and regulatory reforms can be incorporated in such national frameworks/programmes to evolve well-functioning markets that can contribute to achievement of some of these SDGs.