Public Procurement Reforms in Africa: Challenges in Institutions and Governance
Public Procurement Reforms in Africa: Challenges in Institutions and Governance
Full Professor of Economics
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Léon de Mariz, Christine, Claude Ménard, and Bernard Abeillé,
Public Procurement Reforms in Africa: Challenges in Institutions and Governance
(2014;
online edn,
Oxford Academic
, 23 Oct. 2014
), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714910.001.0001,accessed 1 Sept. 2022.
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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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Part I Public Procurement Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview
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When humans understand their environment as...
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Definition, Process, and Size of Public Procurement in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Weaknesses and Flaws of Public Procurement Systems
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Drivers of Change in Public Procurement
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Modalities of Institutional and Organizational Changes
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When humans understand their environment as...
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Part II Institutional Changes at Work: Assessing Successes and Failures
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Part III Organizational Change and Public Procurement Reforms: The Role of Micro-Institutions
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Political institutions will be stable only if...
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A Theoretical Framework to Interpret Organizational Changes
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Micro-Institutions as a Response to Weak Institutional Endowment: The Procurement Regulatory Authorities
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To Delegate or Not to Delegate: The Advantages and Limits of Micro-Institutions
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General Conclusions
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Political institutions will be stable only if...
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End Matter
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