Chapter 1. Brief Overview of Sustainable Public Procurement -- Chapter 2. Emergence of Sustainable Public Procurement as Strategic Instrument -- Chapter 3. Status of Sustainable Procurement Implementation -- Chapter 4. National Context for Sustainable Public Procurement Policy in India --...

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a mechanism through which countries can upgrade connectivity-related infrastructure, including through cross-border projects, complementing traditional sources of finance. An overarching goal of the BRI is to reduce trade costs between China and partner...

This paper advances the literature on distributive politics by analyzing a form of political favoritism driven by the career uncertainties faced by officials. We argue that political leaders provide regime insiders with favors in a high-risk environment. To empirically test this political risk...

Cancer often results in catastrophic health expenditures and creates a huge financial burden for families. We study the impact on patient finances and health outcomes of the national centralized drug procurement program in China for leukemia patients. The program reduced the price of the generic...

Government often acts as the largest buyer in an economy through government procurement. The allocation of procurement order however is often distorted. We build a model with heterogeneous firms endogenously seeking government favors in procurement to show that misallocation of procurement...

The ongoing economic instability in several countries and regions throughout the world, along with the volatility of the market and job losses, has lead to an increase in protests that are currently reaching the highest possible levels of conflict against the so-called establishment....