Pursuing Competition and Regulatory Reforms for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Overview

In September 2015, countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development along with a set of 17 ëgoalsí referred to as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. World leaders agreed to develop structured national action plans to achieve these ambitious ëglobal goalsí through the participation of both state and non-state actors. The international community made commitments to support such processes and programmes. CUTSí mission of is well aligned with a number of these SDGs. Hence, it endeavoured to explore how some of its initiatives under specific programmatic areas synergise with some of the SDGs. Pursuant to this ambition CUTS envisaged this volume. It presents a set of 16 papers contributed from across the globe from Australia to Argentina and will enhance the visibility of competition and regulatory reforms in the context of the achievement of the SDGs. The volume was released at the Fourteenth Session of UNCTAD at Nairobi, Kenya, on July 17-22, 2016.