need to adapt their ways of doing business, including in their approach to procurement of goods and services, for economic …

The World Bank has for decades influenced the regulation and international liberalisation of public procurement markets …. However, proliferating procurement chapters of trade agreements and cheap commercial credit flooding emerging markets, along … with new development banks on the horizon, forced the Word Bank to conduct the first complex reform of its procurement …

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 between GPA parties, which seek to bypass or go beyond the GPA on a …