Government at a Glance: Western Balkans
Government at a Glance: Western Balkans presents information on public governance in the Western Balkan region – covering Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, and compares it to OECD and OECD-EU countries. This first regional edition features 40 indicators on public finance, public employment, centre of government, budgeting practices and procedures, human resources management, public procurement, digital government, core government results and serving citizens. Governance indicators provide important benchmarks on public administration systems, practices and performance. Indicators are presented in a user-friendly format using charts, with brief descriptive analyses of the major findings, and a methodological section on the definition of the indicator and any limitations in data comparability.
Size of public procurement
Public procurement refers to the whole process from identifying what is needed, finding the best supplier, to ensuring the best quality product or service is delivered to the right place, at the right time and at the best price. Of course, the process must be carried out in a fair and transparent manner. Governments spend a large sum of money through public procurement to carry out their daily functions and deliver their mandates. As such, public procurement represents an important economic activity and a strategic lever to achieve economic, social and environmental policy goals. Yet, its economic significance as well as the close interaction between multiple actors, especially between the private and the public sectors, make it a government activity that is particularly susceptible to waste, misuse and corruption.
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