The WTO's plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a significant WTO instrument to develop disciplines … regulating government procurement. A recent major review of the GPA has led to a revised text, likely to enter into force in 2007 … GPA has appreciated the characteristics of the government procurement regime of those countries with a large state sector …

the use of trade policy instruments and attributes of pre-crisis public procurement regulation. Controlling for country … products is strongly positively correlated with the total number of steps and time required to complete procurement processes … in the pre-crisis period. Membership in trade agreements encompassing public procurement disciplines is associated with …

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 …

-dumping and government procurement. Adopting a comparative perspective throughout, this volume sheds light on today's trade law …