Promoting Good Governance, Development and Accountability: Implementation and the WTO (International Political Economy)

Cover......Page 1
Series......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Acronyms......Page 11
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
Academic contribution and structure of the book......Page 20
The MDGs, procurement and the aid effectiveness agenda......Page 23
A gambol through the theory; contextualizing the case study......Page 30
Legalization, comparative politics and the GPA 16......Page 33
Developing countries’ role in the multilateral trading system......Page 36
Governance and alternative perspectives on authority......Page 39
Part I Political Foundations......Page 44
1 Short History and Objectives of the 1994 WTO Agreement......Page 46
1.1 Definitions......Page 48
1.2 The ITO negotiations: exemptions from MFN and national treatment......Page 52
1.3 An OEEC/OECD dialogue (1960–1976)......Page 53
1.4 The Tokyo Round Code (1976–1981)......Page 56
1.5 Re-negotiations (the 1988 protocol)......Page 58
1.6 The 1994 Agreement......Page 59
1.7 Enhancing credibility; the bid challenge mechanism......Page 62
1.8 Damages......Page 64
1.9 Further re-negotiations......Page 65
2 The GPA’s International Administrative Disciplines: Distilling the Underlying Political Structures......Page 66
2.1 Genesis of the bid challenge system: a new role for private actors......Page 70
2.2 Values, domestic review and damages......Page 73
2.3 The GPA, good governance and development......Page 76
2.4 The accountability link......Page 80
2.5 Unitary versus popular sovereignty......Page 85
Part II Moving the International Regulatory Process Ahead: Accountability in Converging and Competing Systems of Authority......Page 90
3 Addressing the WTO Membership Challenge......Page 92
3.1 Lessons from the WGTGP Study Group and two dilemmas: value-driven procurement and competing regulatory models......Page 93
3.1.1 Accommodating the ‘political-administrative interface’......Page 96
3.1.2 Value-driven procurement......Page 98
3.2 Expanding the institutional-perspective: supply-side disciplines to counter the problem of enforcement and the emergence of new acountability issues......Page 99
4.1 Political lessons from the aid effectiveness debate: appreciating the institutional imperatives of ownership and mutual accountability......Page 107
4.2 Jointly agreed commitments and mutual accountability as means to the end of re-legitimizing aid......Page 111
4.3 Taking the regulation of public procurement beyond the Paris Declaration: building blocks for the next step?......Page 113
4.4 Capacity development; a more facilitative role for donors?......Page 115
4.5 Multi-stakeholder initiatives: the Medicines Transparency Alliance as a ‘gap- checking’ placeholder?......Page 119
4.5.1 The complex set of intertwined variables in the medicines supply chain......Page 124
4.5.2 Social accountability, ownership and the pharmaceutical supply chain......Page 127
4.5.3 Squaring the circle: a final link to our evolving regulatory story......Page 130
Part III Pulling It all Together: How Far Might the GPA Procedures Go?......Page 132
The GPA, the rule of law and due process......Page 134
The GPA, transparency and legal accountability......Page 137
Problematic political-administrative interfaces......Page 138
Reconsidering the role of the GPA in securing accountability, better governance and development......Page 142
Appendix 1: Agreement on Government Procurement......Page 145
Appendix 2: Revision of the Agreement on Government Procurement as at 8 December 2006......Page 178
Appendix 3: Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions......Page 217
Notes......Page 225
References......Page 243
Index......Page 260