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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

This made it possible for the Committee of Internal Public Audit of the Ministry of Finance (CIPA) to block attempts to conduct single-source procurement, without proper justification, even at the procurement planning stage. Year 2014 2017 2018 2021 2022 2024 Number of exceptions 67 54 50 48 47 43 Source OECD OECD World Bank Kapital.kz

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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

All countries in the region have signed the Paris Agreement, which aims to increase countries’ resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as stabilize global warming below 2°C and as close to 1.5°C This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries. C as possible.

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The Development of Treasury Bond Market Programs in Fragile Countries: The Case of Haiti

Inter-American Development Bank

Treasury bond markets play a pivotal role in the economic development and fiscal management of fragile countries, as they allow governments to secure funds from both the public and institutional investors, reducing the pressure on governments to print out money to finance their budgets. of GDP from 0.3% percent of GDP in 2023 from 2.9

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Advances in the new international taxation and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

Description of Pillars 1 and 2 In essence, Pillar 1 creates a mechanism for distributing the so-called “Amount A”, a fraction (25%) of residual profits, which affects approximately the 100 largest (with a turnover of more than 20 billion euros) and most profitable (more than 10% of profit on sales) multinationals in the world.

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The Global Minimum Tax is a Game Changer: Learn About the Main Tax Policy Trade-offs

Inter-American Development Bank

In practical terms, the global minimum tax will promote a fairer distribution of taxing rights among countries and prevent multinational corporations from shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions.

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Small and minority-owned businesses see more opportunity than ever

Federal News Network

And what we found that I think is both super important and maybe a little surprising, is that diverse owned and small businesses have the capacity for contracting. And as you would expect, there’s a broad distribution of respondents in the survey who are primes versus subs. So, the sample in the survey was broadly distributed.

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Remedies When The Government Ceases Paying a Contractor, Grantee, or Cooperatee

Procurement Notes

40] It is also worth noting that the Government can materially breach the contract by failing to make contract financing payments (e.g., Generally, the purpose of a grant or cooperative agreement is to distribute federal assistance in order to carry out a Congressionally-approved public purpose. [77] Housing Finance Agency, 745 F.3d