| Abstract: | Global developments have meant that nations increasingly compete on a variety of levels.1] The OECD Report on Regulatory Reform, vol. I and II. OECD, Paris, 1997. Google Scholar]The basis of competition between nations is not only in terms of market share, but also in the scale, shape and role of their public sectors and the regulatory regimes that are emerging within them. Since the early 1980s there has been growth in industrialised economies and increasing attempts across a large number of different jurisdictions to scale down and reform the large public sectors characteristic of the old Soviet bloc countries and to a lesser extent ‘welfarist’ social democratic regimes. |
