procurement also needs to be adjusted. This paper examines a particular case of rural road procurement in Nepal. Severe weather …

To utilize public resources efficiently, it is required to take full advantage of competition in public procurement … addresses whether joint bidding is pro- or anti-competitive in Official Development Assistance procurement auctions for …

improved auction efficiency are expected to be enormous in public procurement auctions related to official development projects … with a strong (incumbent) opponent. Using official development assistance procurement data, this paper finds that in the … findings also show that a high concentration of incumbents in an auction would harm auction efficiency, raising procurement …

international collective action may be drawn. This paper examines the available evidence on public procurement practices in … their public procurement systems. A concerted effort to substantially add to the knowledge base on public procurement … procurement policies and outcomes, is critical to identifying areas where further binding multilateral disciplines may be …

The paper investigates the structure and dynamics of consumption inequality and inequality of opportunity in Tanzania … background variable affecting consumption and income in Tanzania. Without appropriate policy actions, there are few chances for …

Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between …

Tanzania. The model incorporates productivity effects in both goods and services markets endogenously, through a Dixit … by specialists in Tanzania. The authors estimate that Tanzania will gain about 5.3 percent of the value of Tanzanian …. Decomposition exercises reveal that the largest gains to Tanzania will derive from liberalization of costly regulatory barriers that …

access to financial services for some groups, especially the rural poor. The privatization of Tanzania's National Bank of …

and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe two methods-testing doctors and …

business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, the authors describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a … enterprise constraints in Tanzania mainly operate from the supply side. This suggests that, in particular, access to finance …