1 POVERTY AND REGULATION: HOW REGULATION CAN CONTRIBUTE TO POVERTY REDUCTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Colin Kirkpatrick and David Parker* Centre on Regulation and Competition Institute for Development Policy and Management University of Manchester UK *and School of Management Cranfield University Cranfield, MK43 0AL UK DRAFT ONLY: NOT TO BE CITED Correspondence to: David Parker, address above or email: david.parker@cranfield.ac.uk Poverty and Regulation.doc 16 June 2005 Word count: 6695