The second critical aspect of the legal and regulatory environment relates to property rights.

A supportive legal and regulatory environment is vital for sustained growth in developing countries.

While progress had been made in establishing a favourable regulatory environment, certain problems remained in providing services.

There are several key areas where the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

Nevertheless, three key areas are identified below in which the legal and regulatory framework could have a strong impact on the business environment.

There may thus be substantial scope for reforming certain aspects of the regulatory and legal environment in developing countries without compromising broader social goals.

Disaster related legislation and regulatory frameworks within the context of strengthened national systems are essential to creating an enabling environment for disaster risk reduction.

There does therefore appear to be scope in many countries for reforming certain aspects of the regulatory and legal environment without compromising broader social goals.

The regulatory environment has been highly liberal and regulations have been by and large limited to codes related to the construction of retailing real estate.

Specific goals include strengthening the legal and regulatory environment so that the private sector can facilitate such growth and strengthening institutions and agencies to combat corruption.

For example, certain aspects of the legal and regulatory environment relating to businesses in European countries can be quite different from those in the United States or Japan.

As in the case of clusters, the formation and benefits of supply chain linkages depend upon the overall business environment, including appropriate regulatory settings, infrastructure and information about linkage opportunities.

Engagement with FATF, anti corruption controls, international co operation in financial investigations and ratification of anti terrorism related international conventions all appear to improve the general regulatory environment in States.

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Retail trade and wholesale began to operate in the regulatory environment a number of essential laws did not exist, and those that did were not adequate for the new market conditions.

The representative of Benin, speaking on behalf of the least developed countries (LDCs), drew attention to the importance of government policies, the macroeconomic environment and the regulatory framework for attracting FDI.

The representative of Benin, speaking on behalf of the least developed countries (LDCs), drew attention to the importance of government policies, the macroeconomic environment and the regulatory framework for the attracting FDI.

Other regulatory controls

Moreover, the ease with which aspects of the legal and regulatory environment can be applied, enforced and reformed may vary between countries and regions in line with their historical experience, culture and politics.

This would require efficient physical infrastructure effective institutional arrangements and administrative procedures the development of human resources access to financing an investment and business friendly environment and appropriate domestic policies and regulatory frameworks.

The Subcommittee noted with interest the experience of some countries in creating an enabling environment for the information society by enacting strategic policy, legislative and regulatory measures and developing key ICST applications, such as e government, e business, e learning, e health and e environment and natural resources management.

Fourth, regulatory structures will need to be rebuilt, and this will require a global effort. Absent international coordination, the opportunities for destructive regulatory competition will defeat regulatory reform.

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Another consequence is that regulatory competition is likely to increase in Europe, as companies are less bound by local interests to keep their headquarters at home if the tax or regulatory environment becomes unfavorable. The decision by Depfa Bank to shift its headquarters from Wiesbaden to Dublin in 2002 may be a sign of things to come.

Participation of small scale providers in provision of water services, including in the marginal areas, can also be encouraged by improving their access to credit, providing them with training, and creating a supportive regulatory environment.

The Harm of Regulatory Disharmony

Franchising poses particular regulatory challenges.

In the sixth preambular paragraph, the words national and legal regulatory infrastructure should be replaced by national, legal and regulatory infrastructure .

E business practices also required an enabling legal and regulatory environment, and solutions needed to be sufficiently flexible so as not to be rendered obsolete by rapid technological change and to adapt to the specific needs of developing countries.

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Policy, Regulatory Frameworks and Equitable Benefit Sharing

First, there are legislative and regulatory measures.

Recognizing the need for policy and regulatory frameworks conducive to the adoption and diffusion of ICT in the ESCAP region, the main focus of the ICT policy component of the subprogramme has been on increasing the capacity of developing member countries to create enabling policies and a regulatory environment for the development of national and subregional information societies and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Welcoming the efforts made in the field of property rights, and noting that an enabling environment at all levels, including transparent regulatory systems and competitive markets, foster the mobilization of resources and access to finance for people living in poverty,

Welcoming the efforts made in the field of property rights, and noting that an enabling environment at all levels, including transparent regulatory systems and competitive markets, fosters the mobilization of resources and access to finance for people living in poverty,

This programme component provides assistance to improving entrepreneurial and technical skills of rural and women entrepreneurs, through strengthening support institutions and service providers, as well as to improve the administrative and regulatory environment to encourage entrepreneurship among women and rural communities.

(a) In the sixth preambular paragraph, the words national and legal regulatory infrastructure were replaced by the words national legal and regulatory infrastructure

It must be recognized that regulatory reform entails adjustment costs and necessitates regulatory capacity and institution building, technical assistance and capacity building in this regard.

In addition, small and medium sized firms require a favourable legal and regulatory environment, including effective commercial laws that define and protect contracts and property rights, a rational public administration that limits and combats corruption, and expanded access to financial capital, including microfinance.

(b) The development of an appropriate regulatory framework for the future development of the mineral resources of the Area, particularly hydrothermal polymetallic sulphides and cobalt rich ferromanganese crusts, including standards for the protection and preservation of the marine environment during their development

And it has no rules to its regulatory system.

Because of the need to strengthen that open door policy and the hopes that it had engendered, Kuwait had created an appropriate legislative, regulatory and economic environment, modernized its infrastructure, consolidated its international relations and helped the private sector to shoulder its responsibilities for development.