century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

International procurement institutions have played an important role in drug supply. This paper studies price, delivery …, and shipment time of essential drugs supplied in 106 developing countries from 2007-2017 across four procurement … institution types. We find that pooled procurement institutions lower prices: pooling internationally is most effective for small …

Last year was momentous for the international procurement arena, as several of the major multilateral development banks … (MDBs) — including the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) — adopted significant changes to their procurement … Bank's board of executive directors approved a new procurement policy as part of a larger procurement framework described …

under World Bank-financed projects. Because of the prominent role that the World Bank plays in shaping procurement policy …, the Bank’s procurement reforms have had a profound impact on procurement in many countries around the world. This piece, a … draft chapter in the forthcoming Public Procurement and Aid Effectiveness: A Roadmap Under Construction (Annamaria La Chimia …

, is revising its procurement guidelines. The Bank's procurement guidelines are intended to ensure that procurements on … Bank-financed projects are carried out efficiently and without corruption. As a practical matter, because of the billions … of dollars in projects supported by the Bank's financing, the Bank's guidelines help shape procurement practices across …

International procurement institutions play an important role in drug supply. We study price, delivery, and procurement … developing countries from 2007-2017 across procurement institution types. We find that pooled procurement lowers prices: pooling …, pooled procurement is more effective for older-generation drugs, compared to patent pooling institutions that target newer …

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic …

Following scandals about corruption in foreign aid, and in a political climate that increasingly questions the … countries. This paper assesses under which conditions donor regulations are successful in controlling corruption in aid spent by … national governments through procurement tenders. By mining procurement contracts funded by the World Bank in 100 countries …

The WTO's plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement ("the GPA" or "the Agreement") is an important ongoing … participation and strengthening governance in public procurement markets. For all these reasons, the revised Agreement is likely to …