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pt. 1. Competitive dialogue and contractual design fostering innovation and needs analysis -- pt. 2. Separation of selection and award criteria, including exclusion of reputation indicators like references to experience, performance and CVs from award criteria -- pt. 3. Re-tendering a contract...

Managing Public Debt combines a theoretical and empirical analysis of the advantages of issuing index-linked bonds and potential problems that may arise and how sovereign issuers should deal with them. International in its approach, this book will be especially welcomed in those countries where...

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A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially commissioned papers in Volume Two present some of the best policy-oriented research in the field. They stress the institutional roots of corruption and include new research on topics...