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Dávid-Barret, E., The Corruption Cost Tracker: Quantifying the costs of corrupt contracting and the savings to be made from reform. Publicprocurement constitutes about one-third of government spending or 13 trillion USD per year. Fazekas, M., Basdevant, O. GTI-R/2020:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute.
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