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Public Procurement Reforms in Africa: Challenges in Institutions and Governance

Online ISBN:
9780191783098
Print ISBN:
9780198714910
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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Public Procurement Reforms in Africa: Challenges in Institutions and Governance

Christine Léon de Mariz,
Christine Léon de Mariz

Consultant

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Claude Ménard,
Claude Ménard

Full Professor of Economics

Full Professor of Economics, University of Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
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Bernard Abeillé
Bernard Abeillé

Consultant

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Published:
14 August 2014
Online ISBN:
9780191783098
Print ISBN:
9780198714910
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

Abstract

Institutional reforms and their contribution to development and growth have been the source of renewed interest as well as of many challenges over the last two decades. Identifying forces that push towards reform and conditions that determine the success or failure of reforms, building organizational arrangements needed to make modifications to the rules of the game sustainable, understanding the limits to the transfer of reforms and to the help that international organizations and foreign institutions can provide to support change, raise intellectually difficult and politically highly sensitive issues. This book attempts to address these issues from an economic perspective. It draws on field experience to develop an analysis of institutional changes and organizational transformations based on the experience of the public procurement reforms carried out in sub-Saharan Africa. It is driven by the economic significance of procurement and by the fact that ambitious reforms introduced – in some cases imposed – made visible the formidable obstacles that institutional changes face. Using an original dataset, it explores the gap between the expectations and the accomplishment achieved. It develops a framework intended to capture the complex interaction between the different components of reform.

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