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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries. Spending, taxation, public investment, debt management and financing policies can contribute to transform the behavior of different economic actors. C as possible.

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Fair-trade coffee and tea under the procurement directive

European Law: Public Procurement

The two points I will discuss are: Fair trade requirements to products cannot be part of technical specifications but are conditions relating to the performance of the contract; Fair trade criteria can be used as award criteria for public supply contracts. Technical specifications or contract performance conditions?

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Affecting around 4000 public buyers, the decree defines procurement as ‘green’ if it uses green criteria, recognized certificates, ecolabels or environmental management systems for no less than 50% of total procurement value.

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In Kazakhstan, opening up procurement boosts public oversight and prevents millions in wasteful spending

Open Contracting Partnership

In total, 170 million tenge (about US$400,000) was returned to the state budget and a proposal to close the loophole was submitted to the Ministry of Finance ( see full case study here ). Structured data is available via an API and token provided by the Center for Electronic Finances. platform mentioned in the case study above.