Development: an overview -- Basic needs and poverty -- Education, health and human development -- Population and development -- Income inequality, unemployment and inflation -- Agriculture sector and development -- Industry sector and development -- Service sector and development --...

Introduction / Nicola Dimitri, Gustavo Piga and Giancarlo Spagnolo -- The variety of procurement practice : evidence from public procurement / Laura Carpineti, Gustavo Piga and Matteo Zanza -- General strategic principles -- When should procurement be centralized? / Nicola Dimitri, Federico Dini...