Promoting good governance, development and accountability
Subtitle: implementation and the WTO
By: Susan Brown-Shafii
Series: International political economy series; International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780230545250
Subjects: Corrupt practices; Government purchasing; World Trade Organization; Civil service ethics; Rules and practice
Description: "In addressing the politics of the international regulation of public procurement, this book fills a major gap in the literature. Brown-Shafii does this by investigating whether a WTO Agreement can be used to promote good governance, development and accountability."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: Short History and Objectives of the 1994 WTO Agreement; title: The GPA's International Administrative Disciplines : Distilling the Underlying Political Foundations; title: Addressing the WTO Membership Challenge; title: Towards a More Coherent International Regulatory Picture : Converging Institutional Debates?; title: Pulling It All Together : How Far Might the GPA Procedures Go?