This paper assesses the impact of favoritism in public procurement on private sector productivity growth. To this end, it combines three novel microeconomic data sets: administrative data on firms, including...
Public procurement in North Macedonia amounted to 16 percent of total government expenditure in 2018, or 5 percent of gross domestic product. The country’s public procurement is also vulnerable to corruption...
Although green public procurement has been established as a desirable policy goal across the globe, especially in the European Union, its scope and impacts remain severely understudied. This paper provides...
The objective of this study was to analyze the reasons for delays in procurement and contract execution of infrastructure projects. It analyzes available data from three different sources: Tender data...
The development objective of the Second Inclusive and Resilient Market Economy Development Policy Operation for Uzbekistan is to support Uzbekistan’s transition to an inclusive and resilient market economy...
The public procurement function plays a key role in meeting the European Union’s (EU) strategic goal of becoming the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world and securing the benefits...
The public procurement function plays a key role in meeting the strategic goal of the European Union (EU) to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world and to secure the...
Poland’s Ministry of Economic Development and Technology has requested technical advisory services from the World Bank to implement the three priorities of the State Purchasing Policy related to professionalization...
This report offers a six-step implementation roadmap for creating Poland's Green Public Procurement (GPP) monitoring mechanism. The roadmap can help the government implement four high-level recommendations...
Poland’s Ministry of Economic Development and Technology has requested technical advisory services from the World Bank to implement the three priorities of the State Purchasing Policy related to professionalization...
Public procurement, representing on average 15 to 22 percent of GDP, offers governments a powerful tool to achieve their sustainable development and climate action goals. Challenges remain in scaling up...
Public procurement is a sizeable economic activity, and there is increasing attention on how it can strategically contribute to equitable and sustainable economic growth. Despite a growing academic literature...
The public procurement function plays a key role in meeting the European Union’s (EU) strategic goal of becoming the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world and securing the benefits...
This report provides an account of the end of on-the-job support activities that wereconducted by the World Bank (WB) in collaboration with the National Agency for PublicProcurement (ANAP) for selected...
Public procurement is a major component of Uganda’s public service delivery system accounting for an estimate of sixty percent of government national budget spending (excluding wages). Therefore, efficiency...
This document is the final report of the study on factors affecting contract management which was commissioned in 2022 by Uganda’s Public Procurement and Disposal Authority (PPDA) and supported by the...
To support the Romanian Government in development of its new Public Procurement Strategy, the World Bank ran collaborative workshops with Romanian Government officials on six key aspects of the public...
This report outlines the activities carried out by the World Bank team and the resulting deliverables under Component 3, corresponding to Activity (d) “Provide support towards the development of a general...
In accordance with the RAS Legal Agreement on Assessment of the Public Procurement Systemand Further Support to the Implementation of the Public Procurement Strategy (P169141), thescope of Component 2...