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Public Procurement, Regional Integration and the Belt and Road Initiative

Ghossein, Tania M. - 2019

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a mechanism through which countries can upgrade connectivity-related infrastructure, including through cross-border projects, complementing traditional sources of finance. An overarching goal of the BRI is to reduce trade costs between China and partner...

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Services Procurement Under the WTO’s Agreement on Government Procurement : Whither Market Access?

Shingal, Anirudh - 2011

of data submitted by Japan and Switzerland to the WTO's Committee on Government Procurement. Using several metrics, the … to foreign firms would have been more than 15 times higher in the case of Japan and nearly 68 times more in the case of … Switzerland. We also find that for the same services categories, at least the Japanese government is not purchasing as much from …

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The increasing cost of buying American

Bombardini, Matilde; Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Li, Bingjing; … - 2024

The latest resurgence in the U.S. of policies aimed at reducing imports and bolstering domestic production has included the expansion of Buy American provisions. While some of these are new and untested, in this paper we evaluate long-standing procurement limitations on the purchase of foreign...

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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014

Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...

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The Effectiveness of the European Union in Safeguarding Competition in Public Procurement Markets

Fazekas, Mihaly - 2018

The EU's single market in government purchases constitutes a fundamental pillar of economic integration throughout the continent, as it amounts to 4% of GDP. If competition is deficient efficiency losses ensue. As we know surprisingly little about the effectiveness of monitoring and enforcement...

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How government procurement measures can affect trade

Gourdon, Julien; Messent, James - 2017

A number of countries used discriminatory government procurement policies as part of stimulus packages designed to alleviate the effects of the global economic crisis. This paper collates and updates the evidence related to the size of procurement markets, the level of home bias they exhibit,...

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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014

Transitioning from the post-2008 financial meltdown to a sustained period of global growth and prosperity involves a major challenge: how to ensure the effective management of international economic interdependence. Trade, growth, good governance and sustainable development constitute essential...

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Barriers to International Trade in Procurement after the Economic Crisis, Part II : Opening International Procurement Markets: Unfinished Business

Yukins, Christopher R. - 2011

This paper, presented at the West Government Contracts Year in Review Conference (covering 2010), discusses developing issues in international public procurement. Among other things, the paper suggests that, in 2010, the international procurement market continued to mature, as cross-border...

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The European Defense Procurement Directive : An American Perspective

Yukins, Christopher R. - 2009

On August 21, the new European directive on defense and security procurement, Directive 2009/81/EC, entered into force. See, e.g.,EU Adopts New Defense and Security Procurement Directive, 6 IGC ¶ 65. Previously, most European defense procurement was considered exempt from the European...

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International Public Procurement Developments in 2008; Public Procurement in a World Economic Crisis

Anderson, Robert D.; Yukins, Christopher R. - 2009

These two papers, presented at the West Government Contracts Year in Review Conference (covering 2008), discuss developing issues in international public procurement. Among other things, the Anderson paper addresses the role of the World Trade Organization in public procurement; other...

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