Im interested in what you think is so tricky about e-procurement? It seems to me relatively straightforward. The big gain in developing countries too will not just be through efficiency, but as you say through preventing corruption that is so so much harder with everything online.
Even in cases of supposed “failure”, I wonder how many of them would really have been worse than the offline alternative—failures will be more obvious with governments listing everything transparently online.
hmm yeah perhaps the downside isn’t as big as I think, I don’t have any idea to be honest.
My main reason for hesitancy on e-procurement is just how difficult it is to do well in ideal contexts. But perhaps in an LDC context the bar for what constitutes an improvement is also much lower.
Nice one Mathias.
Im interested in what you think is so tricky about e-procurement? It seems to me relatively straightforward. The big gain in developing countries too will not just be through efficiency, but as you say through preventing corruption that is so so much harder with everything online.
Even in cases of supposed “failure”, I wonder how many of them would really have been worse than the offline alternative—failures will be more obvious with governments listing everything transparently online.
hmm yeah perhaps the downside isn’t as big as I think, I don’t have any idea to be honest.
My main reason for hesitancy on e-procurement is just how difficult it is to do well in ideal contexts. But perhaps in an LDC context the bar for what constitutes an improvement is also much lower.