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Meeting tomorrow’s
productivity needs through
regulatory reform
David Cavanough Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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Global economic growth has slowed
Chart 1: Real GDP, percentage change
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook
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Productivity
• Productivity matters because it can generate the
higher incomes and government revenues needed
to raise living standards and rectify disadvantage.
• Accumulation of physical capital and labour
cannot drive sustained long run growth. This is
instead driven by technological change
(productivity growth)
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Increasing productivity is a challenge for
advanced economies
Chart 2: Advanced economies labour productivity growth
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…for developing economies too
(relatively speaking)
Chart 3:
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Change in global productivity growth
1990-2000 to 2000-10
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Challenge maintaining living standards -
Australia
Chart 4: Contribution to growth in real GDP per person
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Challenge maintaining living standards -
Australia
Chart 5: Sources of growth in real national income per person
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What can Governments do?
a. Spend better (fiscal policy); and
b. Regulate better
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Regulation and regulatory management
• Regulation is the most widely used policy
instrument of governments
• Regulation creates benefits and costs for society
• Ensuring high quality regulation has become a
key priority for governments
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Regulatory reform
• Reform, well-coordinated and planned, is not an
ideological act, nor simply a concession to
stronger markets that accelerates painful structural
change.
• Instead, it is a means of managing necessary
change so as to ease disruption and develop new
opportunities for economic and social progress.
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Why is regulation important?
Regulations can promote productivity through:
• innovation – doing new things or old things
better
• or through better resource allocation – the
decline and exit of the weakest performers enables
the more ‘creative’ use of the released labour and
capital
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Regulation also…
• Boosts consumer benefits
• Improves competitiveness
• Fosters flexibility and innovation
• Increases job creation
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Examples of sectoral benefits (price
reductions in real terms)
• Financial services
– UK 70%; US between 30 and 60%
• Telecommunications
– UK 64%; Korea 10-30%
• Electricity
– Norway 18-26%; UK 9-15%
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Examples of economy-wide benefits (GDP,
long-term effects)
• USA 0.9%
• Japan 5.6%
• Korea 8.6%
• Germany 4.9%
• France 4.8%
• Greece 9-11%
Source: OECD: various reports 1997-2000
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Costs of regulation
• Direct costs
• Impact on incentives for entrepreneurship and
innovation
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Why resistance against regulations?
• Regulatory reform has increased business to
greater competitive pressures
• Re-regulation, not de-regulation
• Rising prosperity, new knowledge and risk
• An off-budget solution
• Regulation builds on itself
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Range of options
Black letter law
Guidelines embedded in regulation
Other guidelines
Industry/government code of conduct
Self-regulation
Information programs
No regulation
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• “Good process in policy formulation is
accordingly the most important thing of all
on the ‘to do list’” (Gary Banks, Chairman of Australian
Productivity Commission, 2012)
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Top priorities for your Governments too -
Examples
• Korea: President Park’s top structural reform
priorities
• Philippines: Establishment of National
Competition Commission
• Indonesia: Aim to improve World Bank’s Ease of
Doing Business ranking from 109 to 40
• Vietnam: Resolution 19 – aim to improve Ease of
Doing Business ranking
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Building a Regulatory Management System
1. Adopt regulatory reform policy at the highest
political levels
2. Establish explicit standards for regulatory
quality and principles of regulatory decision-
making
3. Build regulatory management capacities
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Improve quality of new regulations
1. Regulatory Impact Analysis/Statement obliges
policy makers to:
•Consult
•Work through a sequential process of articulating
the problem
•Assess a range of options
•Recommend the best option; and
•Explain why other options are not so good.
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…Improve quality of new regulations
2. Systematic public consultation procedures with
affected interests
3. Using alternatives to regulation
4. Improving regulatory coordination
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Upgrade quality of existing regulations
1. Review and update existing regulations
2. Reduce red tape and formalities
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APEC-OECD integrated checklist on
regulatory reform – some useful prompts
1. Is there an integrated policy for regulatory reform?
2. How strongly do political leaders and senior officials
express support for regulatory reform?
3. What are the accountability mechanisms that assure
effective implementation of regulatory policy?
4. Does the regulation avoid or seek to minimise
discrimination?
5. Is regulatory reform coordinated at all levels of
government?
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…APEC-OECD checklist
6. Are capacities created to ensure quality regulations?
7. Has the legal basis of the regulation been reviewed?
8. Are the rules, regulatory institutions and regulatory
management processes transparent, clear and predictable?
9. Are there public consultation and notification
mechanisms?
10. Are methodologies to analyse the regulatory impact clear
and transparent?
11. Are alternatives to regulation assessed?
12. Are there compliance/enforcement measures?
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Principles for Australian Government policy
makers
Ten principles for policy makers (from The Australian Government Guide
to Regulation)
1. Regulation should not be the default option for policy makers: the
policy option with the greatest net benefit should always be the
recommended option.
2. Regulation should be imposed only when it can be shown to offer an
overall net benefit.
3. The cost burden of new regulation must be fully offset by reductions
in existing regulatory burden.
4. Every substantive regulatory policy change must be the subject of a
Regulation Impact Statement.
5. Policy makers should consult in a genuine and timely way with
affected businesses, community organisations and individuals.
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Principles for Australian Government policy
makers
Ten principles for policy makers (from The Australian Government Guide
to Regulation)
6. Policy makers must consult with each other to avoid creating
cumulative or overlapping regulatory burdens.
7. The information upon which policy makers base their decisions must
be published at the earliest opportunity.
8. Regulators must implement regulation with common sense, empathy
and respect.
9. All regulation must be periodically reviewed to test its continuing
relevance.
10.Policy makers must work closely with their portfolio Deregulation
Units throughout the policy making process.
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Australia’s reforms
• Whole of Government (and economy-wide)
approach to regulation-making
• Systematic use of regulatory policy tools
• Institutional setting for regulatory policy
• Preparation of Regulation Impact Statements
• Cabinet directive – enforcing preparation and
consideration of RISs
• Required for primary and subordinate legislation
• Establish Office of Best Practice Regulation
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APEC-wide gains from reform in transport,
energy and telecommunications Chart 5:
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