Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects: Potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public infrastructure and services - remains lacking in this region - notably, in Sub-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA). Its success foreshadows an economic transformation that will potentially usher in an emergent Africa in the 21st century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this paper is that GPA participation by African countries - a prospect which, to date, they have declined to take up - holds strong potential to reinforce the positive effects of PIDA and to contribute to the region's growth and development more generally. [...]
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2014
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Authors: | Niggli, Nicholas C. ; Osei-Lah, Kodjo |
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Geneva : World Trade Organization (WTO) |
Subject: | Africa | Agreement on Government Procurement | Aid | Corruption | Development | Developing Countries | Economic Integration | Foreign Investment | Foreign Trade | GDP | Governance | Government Procurement | GPA | Infrastructure | Integration | International Trade | International Trade Organizations | LDCs | Liberalization | Openness | Procurement | Public Goods | Public-Private Partnerships | Public Procurement | Regional Integration | Strategic Trade | Trade | Trade Agreements | Trade Policy | WTO |
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Series: | WTO Staff Working Paper ; ERSD-2014-20 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 10.30875/cb7d6044-en [DOI] 803270313 [GVK] hdl:10419/104767 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:wtowps:ERSD201420 [RePEc] |
Classification: | F13 - Commercial Policy; Protection; Promotion; Trade Negotiations ; F14 - Country and Industry Studies of Trade ; F15 - Economic Integration ; f63 ; H44 - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets ; H54 - Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock ; H57 - Procurement ; O19 - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations ; O24 - Trade Policy; Factor Movement Policy; Foreign Exchange Policy |
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