Government procurement: market access, transparency, and multilateral trade rules [PDF]
The authors examine the effects on national welfare and market access of two public procurement practices-discrimination against foreign suppliers of goods and services and nontransparency of the procedures used to allocate government contracts to firms.
Simon Evenett
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Impact of China's National Volume‐Based Procurement Policy on Cost, Volume, and Market Structure: An Interrupted Time‐Series Analysis of Montelukast Sodium [PDF]
Background To reduce drug prices and improve access to essential medicines, the Chinese government implemented the National Volume‐Based Procurement (NVBP) policy, leveraging economies of scale.
Yufei Cheng +6 more
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Deconstructing Pharmaceutical Prices in a Government-Controlled Market: A Hedonic Regression Analysis of B2G Procurement in Thailand [PDF]
Rising pharmaceutical expenditure poses a persistent governance challenge for public health systems in low- and middle-income countries, yet empirical evidence on pricing in Business-to-Government (B2G) settings remains scarce.
Jittakorn Thila, Piriya Pholphirul
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Corporate political connection, rent seeking and government procurement order
Government procurement serves as the primary means through which the government utilizes market mechanisms to forge economic linkages with enterprises.
Zhe Wang +3 more
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The role of e-purchasing in government procurement fraud reduction through expanding market access [PDF]
This study aims to analyze the effect of e-purchasing implementation on the reduction of fraud in government procurements in Indonesia. This study also analyzes the role of market access in mediating the effect of e-purchasing implementation on ...
Femilia Zahra +5 more
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Public procurement and Covid-19 in Portugal: the particular case of the acquisition of institutional publicity related to the pandemic disease [PDF]
In addition to several other exceptional legal measures adopted in regard to public procurement related to the pandemic of the disease Covid-19, the Government also enforced a specific regime for the acquisition of institutional publicity related or ...
Marco Caldeira
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Improving the Acquisition Process in Canada [PDF]
Flaws in Canada’s military procurement processes are a perennial burden on both government and industry. The release of the Defence Procurement Strategy this year signified Ottawa’s inclination toward change.
J. Craig Stone
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In general, government procurement accounts for between 10% and 16% of a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), making it an important part of the economy.
Jefferson Alves Lopes +1 more
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Public procurement as an instrument for implementing economic policy (experience of EU countries)
The article explores the experience of a number of EU countries. It is revealed that in the EU countries there is growing interest in using public procurement policies for food security by promoting the development of farms, small farmers entering the ...
Boris A. Kheifets, Veronika Yu. Chernova
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The Legal and Social Construction of Value in Government Procurement Markets [PDF]
AbstractThe Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 introduces a social value duty. It requires public authorities in England and Wales that are carrying out procurement activities to ‘consider’ how such activities might ‘improve … economic, social and environmental well‐being’.
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