Argues that the global organization of production accounts for much of the expansion in trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) and that the functional integration of production activites in different locations has led to an intensification of global economic integration.

Public procurement is one of the main cross-sectoral reforms that the Government of Lebanon committed to at the "Conférence économique pour le développement, par les réformes et avec lesentreprises" (CEDRE) held in Paris in April 2018, in order to improve fiscal governance and the qualityof...