The Latin American and Caribbean Competition Forum bring together high-level competition officials each year to promote dialogue, consensus building and networking among policy makers and enforcers in the region.
The 2023 Forum, hosted by Ecuador, peer reviewed Dominican Republic's regime and explored competition and poverty and competition in sports.
27 September 2023 (morning): National Competition Day of Ecuador Agenda | Orden del día
27 September 2023 (afternoon): Ibero-American Forum on Competition Agenda | Orden del día
27 September 2023 (end of the afternoon): Meeting of the Group of Competition Agencies of America (GrACA) Agenda | Orden del día
Fighting poverty has remained a top priority and a key challenge to many countries including in Latin America and the Caribbean. Poverty eradication appears, for instance, as the first of seventeen objectives of sustainable development established by the United Nations. The region was also particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which gave rise to the worst recession in the region in the last 100 years.
This session focused on the role of competition policy for poverty reduction, considering that fighting poverty remains as a top priority to many developing countries including in Latin America and the Caribbean. It covered the interplay between competition policy and poverty reduction, as well as the role of competition authorities to contribute to reduce poverty from both enforcement and advocacy standpoints.
BACKGROUND DOCUMENTATION
Call for contributions English | Español
Background Note by the OECD Secretariat English | Español
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PARTICIPATING DELEGATIONS
Dominican Republic English | Español
United States English | Español
SPEAKERS
Eleanor Fox Bio
Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation Emerita, New York University School of Law
Taimoon Stewart Bio 
Honorary Research Fellow, University of West Indies
Catalina Medel Lucas Bio
Professor, University of Chile
PRESENTATIONS
Sports are embedded in national cultures and are a relevant tool in the promotion of social development, such as crime reduction, health improvement and social cohesion. Football is the most popular sport in continental Latin America, while baseball is the prime sport in the Caribbean. Other sports are also popular in the region, such as athletics, basketball, boxing, car racing, cricket, horse racing, tennis, and volleyball. In addition to the social and cultural dimension of sports, its economic importance has increasingly become evident in the last decades.
In this context, the session will explore key competition issues related to the sports industry including competition in the organisation of sports leagues (e.g. existence of a monopoly and potential abusive behaviour by league organisers), sports broadcasting rights, the sale of tickets to sports events, and sports labour markets.
Background documentation
Call for contributions English | Español
Background Note by the OECD Secretariat English | Español
Contributions from participants
United States English | Español
Speakers
Ben Van Rompuy
Professor of Law at Leiden University
Marcela Mattiuzzo
Professor at INSPER, Partner at VMCA
María Claudia Martinez
Partner, DLA Piper Martinez Beltran
Presentations
