2024-06-10-世界银行-非洲数字市场的竞争政策（英）_76页_1mb

报告摘要

Digital markets in Africa are vulnerable to competition issues due to high network effects and returns to scale.
Core policy enablers for competition: effective digital infrastructure regulation, data protection, and consumer protection rules.
Enforcement of competition law (antitrust and merger control) is developing but limited across most of Africa.

Prevalent practices: Focusing on abuse of dominance cases, particularly exclusivity agreements like restricting business partners or blocking access.
Less frequent: Merger reviews and anticompetitive agreement investigations.
Mostly handled by national and regional competition authorities, with varying degrees of independence and capacity.
African countries tend to impose behavioral remedies rather than fines.
Focus areas: Digital platforms, mobile money, data services, and SME protection.

Abuse of Dominance: Most cases involve exclusivity obligations.
Merger Control: Used frequently as a tool to impose remedies (e.g., data access requirements).
Case Types: Less active in anticompetitive agreements; no widespread use of algorithms/collusion yet.
Sectoral Focus: Concentration on mobile money/platforms (e.g., Safaricom Kenya, Computicket South Africa).

Strengthen institutional capacity and independence among competition authorities.
Promote better ex-ante regulation of digital infrastructure and data.
Foster collaboration between national and regional bodies to address competition in cross-border markets.
Leverage consumer protection initiatives to enhance competition outcomes.
Ensure merger control addresses concentration and data-related anticompetitive risks.

Increasing attention from competition authorities, particularly concerning digital platform behaviors.
Need for ongoing learning from more developed economies and experience-sharing among African competition authorities.
Focus should be on enhancing institutional capacity and streamlining application of competition rules to digital markets.

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