An Overview of Public Procurement, Corruption, and Governance in Africa

The most important measures stimulating the increase of efficiency and effectiveness of budget expenditures on road construction are the improvement of pricing mechanisms and increasing efficiency of the procedures of government purchases of goods, works and services. The paper includes the analysis of main problems that arise in the process of government purchases and construction pricing with the reference to budget expenditure on road construction. It includes the review and analysis of international experience and possible measures of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of government purchases and (road) construction pricing in Russia.

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Public Procurement and Innovative Economy Forming

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2010-6-108-117 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 108-117 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

I. Smotritskaya ◽

S. Chernykh

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Public Procurement ◽

Innovative Activity ◽

Institutional Framework ◽

Effective Management ◽

Russian Economy ◽

Public Resources ◽

Innovative Economy ◽

Procurement System

The article analyzes the conceptual framework of public procurement system as an integral part of public regulation to ensure effective management of public resources. The authors consider the problems of transition to a new "quality" of the procurement system, increasing its innovative activity. They put forward proposals for institutional framework and mechanisms of regulating procurement, meeting the needs in innovative upgrading and modernization of the Russian economy.

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Analysis of relations in the state sector of Russian public procurement

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2018-10-106-126 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 106-126

Author(s):

O. V. Anchishkina

Keyword(s):

Current Practice ◽

Public Procurement ◽

The State ◽

Market Failures ◽

Administrative System ◽

State Sector ◽

Contractual Relations ◽

State Organizations ◽

State Organization ◽

Negative Factors

The paper deals with a special sector of public procurement — G2G, in which state organizations act as both customers and suppliers. The analysis shows the convergence between contractual and administrative relations and risks of transferring the negative factors, responsible for market failures, into the administrative system, as well as the changing nature of the state organization. Budget losses in the sector G2G are revealed and estimated. There are doubts, whether the current practice of substitution of market-based instruments for administrative requirements is able to maintain integrity of public procurement in the situation of growing strategic challenges. Measures are proposed for the adjustment and privatization of contractual relations.

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