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Our Core expertise is in improving the regulatory environment for business, while finding better ways for governments to achieve policy goals.
Jacobs and Associates specialises in regulatory reform. We assess, design, and help implement the rules and institutions that influence how well markets operate.
Our Partners have advised governments and businesses world-wide on improving the environment for business investment and innovation, while preserving public policy goals. We diagnose market performance, identify the impacts of policy reforms, and develop practical and tested solutions, based on international good practices, to manage risks and maximize the benefits of regulatory and governance reforms.
We have broad experience in:
- economy-wide market frameworks, such as competition and market openness policies,
- public sector capacities for delivering efficient and transparent regulation, based on good international practices, and
- building and improving regulatory regimes in sectors such as telecommunications, energy, and transport.
Jacobs and Associates is unique in its multi-disciplinary capacity to examine the total policy environment. We help identify comprehensive reform strategies that increase credibility and reduce the risks of failure.
We design integrated solutions to produce market results. Partial or uncoordinated reforms can disappoint, or can be worse than no reform at all. Reforms achieve more for governments and businesses when they are comprehensive, complementary,and coordinated, and are matched by effective competition policies, efficient public sector institutions, and integration of market openness principles into domestic regulatory regimes.
Maintaining good market performance in times of change depends on expert diagnosis and practical responses...
...for governments... Governments around the world recognise that their regulatory practices and policy decisions affect market performance and provide the competitive edge in global markets. Good governance and sound regulatory practices are necessary to encourage productivity, investment and innovation, create new jobs, and boost potential growth and competitiveness, while maintaining high standards of consumer and environmental protection. Most governments are becoming more pro-active in diagnosing and initiating needed reforms to establish a positive business environment. They must respond quickly yet expertly to market changes.
...and for businesses. Uncertainty and investment risks are increasing as businesses enter new markets and as governments around the globe struggle to bring their regulatory regimes into line with current market practices. How will competition and markets develop? Is there a level playing field? What are the hidden risks? How will reforms affect business strategies? Opportunities and risks can be managed if firms have sound and timely information.
The benchmarks for best practices are getting higher. The benchmark for market reforms is international best practices, adapted to national contexts. For governments and businesses, benchmarks for good regulatory practices are continually rising, as other governments and enterprises find better ways to adapt and perform. |
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"A growing body of evidence shows that regulatory reform, within the right institutional framework, can be one of the most powerful tools available today for economic development and poverty reduction. Every government, no matter its starting point, can take positive steps to reform that can have substantial results."
Scott Jacobs, Managing Partner, Jacobs and Associates, speaking at the IMF Conference on Second Generation Reforms, Washington, D.C., 1999
"Achieving promptly the benefits of reform, for producers and the economy as well as for consumers, will require ensuring that consumers benefit. The benefits of greater competition must appear as lower consumer prices or greater or higher quality output, and consumers must know that reform does not mean the loss of necessary protections."
Michael Wise, Jacobs and Associates, writing in the OECD Report on Regulatory Reform, 1997, Paris. |
