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How government procurement measures can affect trade
Gourdon, Julien; Messent, James - 2017
A number of countries used discriminatory government procurement policies as part of stimulus packages designed to alleviate the effects of the global economic crisis. This paper collates and updates the evidence related to the size of procurement markets, the level of home bias they exhibit,...
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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014
Transitioning from the post-2008 financial meltdown to a sustained period of global growth and prosperity involves a major challenge: how to ensure the effective management of international economic interdependence. Trade, growth, good governance and sustainable development constitute essential...
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OECD taxonomy of measures affecting trade in government procurement processes
Gourdon, Julien; Bastien, Véronique; Folliot-Lalliot, … - 2017
This paper develops a taxonomy of government procurement (GP) measures to provide a basis for further analysis. It aims to undertake a more comprehensive, albeit not exhaustive, collection of GP barriers across countries, and to develop a classification system of GP measures to facilitate...
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Mapping the OECD Government Procurement taxonomy with international best practices : an implementation to ASEAN countries
Gourdon, Julien - 2018
The OECD developed a taxonomy of measures affecting government procurement which provides a classification system for different GP measures, policies and procedures, which can impact cross-border government procurement. This project aims to further assist countries in assessing their procurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955788
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882817
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The new goods margin in Japanese–Chinese trade
Dalton, John T. - In: Japan and the World Economy 31 (2014) C, pp. 8-13
, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account … for 15.9% of Japanese exports to China and 22% of Chinese exports to Japan after trade liberalization. For the case of … Chinese exports to Japan, a time series measure shows the growth in new goods coincides with the timing of the trade …
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Multilateralising regionalism on government procurement
Ueno, Asako - 2013
The potential multilateralisation of government procurement commitments in regional trade agreements (RTAs) presents many issues and challenges. To what extent do RTAs go beyond the 2012 revised Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), and how do they differ among trading partners? This report...
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Does the WTO government procurement agreement deliver what it promises?
Tas, Bedri Kamil Onur; Dawar, Kamala; Holmes, Peter; … - In: World trade review : economics, law, international … 18 (2019) 4, pp. 609-634
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Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of social public procurement policy : the case of the Swiss apprenticeship training system
Strupler Leiser, Mirjam; Wolter, Stefan, C. - In: Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations 31 (2017) 2, pp. 204-222
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The sources and magnitudes of Switzerland's gains from trade
Hepenstrick, Christian - 2011
tool to quantify the magnitudes of Switzerland's gains from trade. I find that the importance of single trading partners … for Switzerland's welfare is surprisingly small. The reason are reallocation effects - if trade between Switzerland and … from trade ; Switzerland ; development accounting …
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