Benchmarking Public Procurement 2017 : Assessing Public Procurement Regulatory Systems in 180 Economies
Despite the importance of the public procurement market, little effort has been made to systematically and consistently collect reliable statistics on a number of critical dimensions. To date, no attempt has been made to collect comparable statisti...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/121001523554026106/Benchmarking-Public-Procurement-2017-Assessing-Public-Procurement-Regulatory-Systems-in-180-Economies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32500 |
| Summary: | Despite the importance of the public
procurement market, little effort has been made to
systematically and consistently collect reliable statistics
on a number of critical dimensions. To date, no attempt has
been made to collect comparable statistics on the size of
public procurement in economies around the world. While data
are publicly available for High-income economies, for the
rest of the world, data and studies are scarce. However,
public procurement is as important in developing countries
as it is in advanced economies. Governments in developing
countries are significant purchasers of good and services,
and these markets represent huge opportunities to enhance
competition and development. Low-income countries have the
highest share of publicprocurement in their economies, at
14.5 percent of GDP, followed by upper-middle income
countries, at 13.6 percent, as data from government sources
or international development institutions indicate.
International statistics fall short in systematically and
comparably capturing a number of other important dimensions
of public procurement, including the regulatory and legal
environment, risks and costs, quality and efficiency of
service delivery, transparency and competition. |
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