Public Procurement Reforms in Africa
Challenges in Institutions and Governance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 August 2014
- ISBN 9780198714910
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages226 pages
- Size 241x162x17 mm
- Weight 490 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 Figures, 16 Tables, 8 Boxes 0
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Short description:
A book on the economics of institutional changes. It focuses on the forces that push towards reforms and on the difficulties and obstacles that make them so fragile. It examines the key role, beyond the legal framework, of informal rules and the 'micro-institutions' that provide the organizational backbone to the implementation of reforms.
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Institutional reforms and their contribution to development and growth have been a source of renewed interest as well as of many challenges over the last two decades. Identifying the forces that push towards reform and the conditions that determine the success or failure of reforms, building organizational arrangements needed to make modifications to the rules of the game sustainable, and 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. Combining knowledge and field experience, it develops an analysis of institutional changes and organizational transformations based on the experience of the public procurement reforms carried out in sub-Saharan Africa. This highlights the economic significance of procurement and the formidable obstacles that institutional changes face. Using an original dataset, it explores the gap between the expectations and what has been achieved. It develops a framework that intends to capture the complex interaction between the different components of reform and aims to provide useful insights for researchers and policy makers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I: Public Procurement Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview
Definition, Process, and Size of Public Procurement in Sub-Saharan Africa
Weaknesses and Flaws of Public Procurement Systems
Drivers of Change in Public Procurement
Modalities of Institutional and Organizational Changes
Part II: Institutional Changes at Work: Assessing Successes and Failures
Interpreting Institutional Change in Public Procurement: Our Theoretical Framework
Assessing Progress in Public Procurement Reforms
Institutional Changes and Their Limitations in Sub-Saharan African Countries: Some Facts
Part III - Organizational Change and Public Procurement Reforms: The Role of Micro-Institutions
A Theoretical Framework to Interpret Organizational Changes
Micro-Institutions as a Response to Weak Institutional Endowments: The Procurement Regulatory Authorities
To Delegate or Not to Delegate: The Advantages and Limits of Micro-institutions
General Conclusions
Annex
Learning from Experience
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