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Unveiling the Truth: How Sticking to Fiscal Rules Boosts Investment in Latin America

Inter-American Development Bank

This change in perspective is especially crucial now, as many LAC countries are undergoing fiscal consolidation to balance their budgets and reduce debt levels while facing increasing pressure from their populations to tackle key development challenges. Calibrate escape clauses to accommodate economic shocks.

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

Smart Public Procurement Can Contribute to Marofiscal Stability Smart public procurement spending can be a critical area for improving fiscal balances because it can improve the effectiveness of public expenditure by reducing waste. Better fiscal balances will contribute to greater macroeconomic stability.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Approach : Lithuania launched an ambitious public procurement reform in 2021 to reduce the country’s carbon footprint and ensure every public procurement decision considers its environmental impact. We also have to help our buyers with capacity, always keeping an eye on the big prize – cleaner, better environment.“

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Applying AI to Advance Agency Missions

FedInsider

During his time with the International Trade Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary, he also learned how to balance priorities and execute complex tasks with multiple stakeholders inside the Federal Government. Before joining SNG, he hosted “Government Matters” on Washington, DC’s ABC 7 from 2016 to 2021.

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OCP Feedback Survey: Closing the books on 2023 and looking towards 2030

Open Contracting Partnership

We received an 86 out of 100, returning to the record high score we received in 2021 during our intensive COVID-19 response and recovery support. Organizations we work with more as allies, advocates, or co-implementers may not be seeking capacity-building support from us in the first place.

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Migrating and modernizing state WIC applications with AWS

AWS Public Sector

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provided the USDA with $390 million available in non-competitive grants to offer WIC agencies looking to innovate their technology. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers scalable computing capacity within the AWS Cloud. This technology is aging across the U.S.,

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Interview with Our Editors: Nigeria and Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre in the Spotlight with Abimbola Akeredolu SAN

Kluwer Arbitration

The LACIAC Board of Directors, through its technical committees, strives to build capacity in different sectors including energy, construction, finance and technology, international trade, telecoms, media and entertainment, MSMEs, among others. The Adjudication Rules were a vital part of the Centre’s 2021 “ROAD” Map.