This article examines efforts to create binding international rules regulating public procurement and considers, in particular, the failure to reach a WTO agreement on transparency in government procurement. The particular focus of the discussion is the approach taken by Malaysia to these...

This Working Paper considers the significance of government procurement chapters in regional trade agreements (RTAs), both in their own right and vis-à-vis the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA). The paper finds, inter alia, that: (i) a strong complementarity exists between...

This article examines efforts to create binding international rules regulating public procurement and considers, in particular, the failure to reach a WTO agreement on transparency in government procurement. The particular focus of the discussion is the approach taken by Malaysia to these...

The World Trade Organisation Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) has created the most comprehensive plurilateral system for procurement-related trade liberalisation. However, there has been a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) regulating public procurement liberalisation, including...

Seit einiger Zeit mehren sich die Vorschläge, imöffentlichen Beschaffungswesen neben dem Zielder Wirtschaftlichkeit, d.h. der Beschaffung guterQualität zu günstigen Preisen, auch andere,politische Ziele zu berücksichtigen. So beschlossendie Regierungen der OECD-Länder 2002, dieVergabe...