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The development and implementation of an efficient institutional food procurement programme (IFPP) - which aims to link … smallholder producers to institutional markets and promote development of food supply systems - is not a simple or straightforward …
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. In a similar vein, public food procurement has also been used to promote a number of positive outcomes. There is growing … smallholders into markets and strengthen rural livelihoods. Despite the expansion of public food procurement from smallholder … farmers, research into these novel strategies is still limited. This paper will address some of the research gaps by …
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This paper analyzes the design of innovation contests when the quality of an innovation depends on the research approach of the supplier, but the best approach is unknown. Diversity of approaches is desirable because it generates an option value. In our main model with two suppliers, the buyer...
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implies that transaction costs as part of total costs of ownership carry a large weight in procurement decisions. An analysis …
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We consider auction games where, prior to the auction, bidders spend resources to increase their valuations. The market game is solved by solving an equivalent auxiliary social choice problem. We show that standard auctions are fully efficient, whereas reserve price requirements entail a double...
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In public procur ement a temporal separation between award and actual contract allows private entrepreneurs who did not get the award to sue to become contractor. Hence, not only the award-winning entrepreneur, but also the losers will engage in relationship-specific investments. Unfortunately,...
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question in the context of the US federal procurement of services and works, by combining contract-level data on procurement …
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