Regulatory Reform in the Middle East and North Africa : Implementing Regulatory Policy Principles to Foster Inclusive Growth (Arabic version)

This book assesses progress in the implementation of regulatory policy within the region. Regulatory governance in the MENA region is an increasing priority for encouraging and enabling sustainable development and inclusive growth. The report reflects on the developments and highlights good practices from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority and Tunisia. The report concludes by providing recommendations to MENA countries, especially those in transition, to help them build the required institutions, systems, policies and capacities to produce a better regulatory environment needed to deliver sustainable development and equitable growth whilst ensuring public participation and accountability. Read more... We expect governments to protect citizens from the adverse consequences of hazardous events; at the same time it is not possible or necessarily in the best interest of citizens for all risks to be removed. A risk-based approach to the design and implementation of regulation can help to ensure that regulatory approaches are efficient, effective and account for risk/risk tradeoffs across policy objectives, and can improve the welfare of citizens by providing better protection, more efficient government services and reduced costs for business. Across the OECD few governments have taken steps to develop a coherent risk governance policy for managing regulation. This publication presents recent OECD research and analysis on risk and regulatory policy, discussing core challenges and offering measures for developing, or improving, coherent risk governance policies. Topics include: cultural and legal dimensions of risk regulatory concepts across OECD; analytical models and principles for decision making in uncertain situations; the use of management-based regulation to help firms make risk-related behavioral changes; an analysis of the risk-based frameworks of regulators in five OECD countries (Australia, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom) and across four sectors: environment, food safety, financial markets and health and safety; and the elements for designing formal guidelines for risk prioritization, assessment, management and communication.--Publisher's description Ch. 1. Challenges to designing regulatory policy frameworks to manage risks -- -- Ch. 2. Risk regulatory concepts and the law -- -- Ch. 3. Strategic issues in risk regulation and risk management -- -- Ch. 4. Risk regulation and governance institutions -- -- Ch. 5. Management-based regulation: implications for public policy -- -- Ch. 6. Risk-based regulation : choices, practices and lessons being learnt -- -- Ch. 7. Why governments need guidelines for risk assessment and management.