全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20344
来源ID	Working Paper 20344
	Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia
	Sean Lewis-Faupel; Yusuf Neggers; Benjamin A. Olken; Rohini Pande
发表日期	2014-07-31
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Poorly functioning, and often corrupt, public procurement procedures are widely faulted for the low quality of infrastructure provision in developing countries. Can electronic procurement (e-procurement), which reduces both the cost of acquiring tender information and personal interaction between bidders and procurement officials, ameliorate these problems? In this paper we develop a unique micro-dataset on public works procurement from two fast-growing economies, India and Indonesia, and use regional and time variation in the adoption of e-procurement across both countries to examine its impact. We find no evidence that e-procurement reduces prices paid by the government, but do find that it is associated with quality improvements. In India, where we observe an independent measure of construction quality, e-procurement improves the average road quality, and in Indonesia, e-procurement reduces delays in completion of public works projects. Bidding data suggests that an important channel of influence is selection -- regions with e-procurement have a broader distribution of winners, with (better) winning bidders more likely to come from outside the region where the work takes place. On net, the results suggest that e-procurement facilitates entry from higher quality contractors.
主题	Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Country Studies
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20344
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578017
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sean Lewis-Faupel,Yusuf Neggers,Benjamin A. Olken,et al. Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia. 2014.