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Bernard Hoekman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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government procurement market Access Transparency and multilateral trade rules
Social Science Research Network, 2004Co-Authors: Simon J Evenett, Bernard HoekmanAbstract:The effects on national welfare and market Access of two important public procurement practices (discrimination and non-Transparency) are analyzed with an eye to the ongoing discussions on procurement reform in the Doha Round. The analysis suggests that the welfare payoffs of adopting mechanisms that foster domestic competition and Transparency are likely to be greater than the return to efforts to ban international discrimination. However improved Transparency, which may well reduce corruption, is unlikely to also result in significant enhancements in market Access. This in turn raises questions about the likely enforceability of a WTO agreement on Transparency in procurement.
Simon J Evenett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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government procurement market Access Transparency and multilateral trade rules
Social Science Research Network, 2004Co-Authors: Simon J Evenett, Bernard HoekmanAbstract:The effects on national welfare and market Access of two important public procurement practices (discrimination and non-Transparency) are analyzed with an eye to the ongoing discussions on procurement reform in the Doha Round. The analysis suggests that the welfare payoffs of adopting mechanisms that foster domestic competition and Transparency are likely to be greater than the return to efforts to ban international discrimination. However improved Transparency, which may well reduce corruption, is unlikely to also result in significant enhancements in market Access. This in turn raises questions about the likely enforceability of a WTO agreement on Transparency in procurement.
Ernard Hoekma - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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government procurement market Access Transparency and multilateral trade rules
European Journal of Political Economy, 2004Co-Authors: Simo J Evene, Ernard HoekmaAbstract:The authors examine the effects on national welfare and market Access of two public procurement practices-discrimination against foreign suppliers of goods and services and nonTransparency of the procedures used to allocate government contracts to firms. Both types of policies have become prominent in international trade negotiations, including the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks. Traditionally, the focus of international trade agreements has been on market Access. However, many developing countries have opposed the launch of negotiations to extend the principle of nondiscrimination to procurement. As a result, the current focus in the Doha Round is on an effort to launch discussions on agreeing to principles of Transparency in procurement. While Transparency will not constrain the ability of governments to discriminate in favor of domestic firms, it could nonetheless improve market Access by reducing corruption. The authors assess and compare the impact of eliminating discrimination and fostering greater domestic competition in procurement markets and enhancing Transparency in state contracting. Their analysis concludes that greater domestic competition on procurement markets and greater Transparency will improve economic welfare. But there is no clear-cut effect on market Access of ending discrimination or improving Transparency. This mismatch between market Access and welfare effects may account for the slower progress in negotiating procurement disciplines in trade agreements than for traditional border measures such as tariffs, given that market Access is the driving force behind trade agreements.
Simo J Evene - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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government procurement market Access Transparency and multilateral trade rules
European Journal of Political Economy, 2004Co-Authors: Simo J Evene, Ernard HoekmaAbstract:The authors examine the effects on national welfare and market Access of two public procurement practices-discrimination against foreign suppliers of goods and services and nonTransparency of the procedures used to allocate government contracts to firms. Both types of policies have become prominent in international trade negotiations, including the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks. Traditionally, the focus of international trade agreements has been on market Access. However, many developing countries have opposed the launch of negotiations to extend the principle of nondiscrimination to procurement. As a result, the current focus in the Doha Round is on an effort to launch discussions on agreeing to principles of Transparency in procurement. While Transparency will not constrain the ability of governments to discriminate in favor of domestic firms, it could nonetheless improve market Access by reducing corruption. The authors assess and compare the impact of eliminating discrimination and fostering greater domestic competition in procurement markets and enhancing Transparency in state contracting. Their analysis concludes that greater domestic competition on procurement markets and greater Transparency will improve economic welfare. But there is no clear-cut effect on market Access of ending discrimination or improving Transparency. This mismatch between market Access and welfare effects may account for the slower progress in negotiating procurement disciplines in trade agreements than for traditional border measures such as tariffs, given that market Access is the driving force behind trade agreements.
Eduard C Dragut - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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building a terabyte nexrad radar database for hydrometeorology research
Computers & Geosciences, 2006Co-Authors: Anton Kruger, Ramon Lawrence, Eduard C DragutAbstract:The management and processing of terabyte-scale radar data sets is time-consuming, costly, and an impediment to research. Researchers require rapid and transparent Access to the data without being encumbered with the technical challenges of data management. In this paper, we describe a database architecture that manages over 12TB (and growing) of Archive Level II data that is produced by the United States National Weather Service's network of WSR-88D weather radars. The contribution of this work is an automatic system for archiving and analyzing radar data that isolates geoscientists from the complexities of data storage and retrieval. Data Access Transparency is achieved by using a relational database to store metadata on the raw data, which enables simple SQL queries to retrieve data subsets of interest. The second component is a distributed web platform that cost-effectively distributes data across web servers for Access using the ubiquitous HTTP protocol. This work demonstrates how massive data sets can be effectively queried and managed.
