The WTO Regime on Government Procurement

Challenge and Reform
Herausgeber: Arrowsmith, Sue; Anderson, Robert D.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the increasing importance of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement in the multilateral trading system and the resulting challenges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 896
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 52mm
• Gewicht: 1422g
• ISBN-13: 9781107006645
• ISBN-10: 1107006643
• Artikelnr.: 32552863

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The WTO Regime on Government Procurement: 1. The WTO regime on
government procurement: past, present and future; Part II. Expanding the
Scope of the Agreement on Government Procurement: Accession and Coverage:
2. Forging a more global procurement market: issues concerning accessions
to the agreement on government procurement; 3. Accession to the agreement
on government procurement: the case of China; 4. India's possible accession
to the agreement on government procurement: what are the pros and cons?; 5.
The benefits to developing countries of accession to the government
procurement agreement: the case of Chinese Taipei; 6. The coverage
negotiations for the agreement on government procurement: context, mandate,
process and prospects; 7. A case study of coverage issues: Canada's
sub-central coverage under the agreement on government procurement; 8. The
procurement of state trading companies under the WTO agreements: a proposal
for a way forward; 9. Addressing purchasing arrangements between public
sector entities - what can the WTO learn from the EU's experience?; Part
III. Revision of the Procedural Rules and Other Transparency Provisions of
the Agreement on Government Procurement: 10. The revised agreement on
government procurement: changes to the procedural rules and other
transparency provisions; Part IV. Developing Countries in the WTO
Procurement Regime: 11. Special and differential treatment for developing
countries under the agreement on government procurement: the current text
and new provisions; 12. Building sustainable capacity in public
procurement; 13. Untying aid through the agreement on government
procurement: a means to encourage developing country accession to the
agreement and to improve aid effectiveness?; Part V. Economic and Social
Development (Horizontal Policies) in Government Procurement: 14. The
national treatment and exceptions provisions of the agreement on government
procurement and the pursuit of horizontal policies; 15. The limited case
for permitting SME procurement preferences in the agreement on government
procurement; 16. Social policies in procurement and the agreement on
government procurement: a perspective from South Africa; Part VI.
Enforcement and Remedies: 17. Constructing a system of challenge procedures
to comply with the government procurement agreement; 18. Designing
effective challenge procedures: the EU's experience with remedies; 19. The
design and operation of a bid challenge mechanism: the experience of Hong
Kong; Part VII. Multilateralism and Regionalism: 20. Government procurement
provisions in regional trade agreements: a stepping stone to GPA
accession?; 21. A case study of regionalism: the EU-Cariforum economic
partnership agreement; Part VIII. Challenges and New Directions: 22.
Ensuring integrity and competition in public procurement markets: a dual
challenge for good governance; 23. Developing multilateral rules on
government procurement: the value of soft law; 24. Work of UNCITRAL on
government procurement: purpose, objectives, and complementarity with the
work of the WTO; 25. Global procurement law in times of crisis: new buy
American policies and options in the WTO legal system; 26. Procurement
rules in times of crisis: lessons from US government procurement in three
episodes of 'crisis' in the 21st century.