Is China building a road to ruin?
Very interesting paper by Ansar, Flyvberg et all:
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” — https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1609/1609.00415.pdf
A more general piece can be found in the Wall Street Journal.
Very interesting paper by Ansar, Flyvberg et all:
“
” — https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1609/1609.00415.pdf
A more general piece can be found in the Wall Street Journal.
Back in 2021 the then Portuguese government decided to make procurement more flexible as to ensure the Recovery and Resilience Facility money was spent quickly. In 2023 I warned about some of the risks that the reform had introduced here and here. Fast forward to 2024 and the Portuguese Audit
The Commission launched last week the PPDS, a service that is expected to aggregate data about public procurement in the EU. In essence it takes the data included in the eForms filled in by contracting authorities and makes it available to anyone. For example, it is possible to check for
Last week, in her speech on the political guidelines for her new term as Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen announced the following in relation to public procurement: "We must also make better use of public procurement – which accounts for 14% of EU GDP. A 1% efficiency gain in
I've just uploaded to SSRN my (draft) entry for the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of EU Law. It's on general principles and here's the abstract: "Public procurement regulation within the EU is subject to a mixture of primary, secondary law and case law. This