Who benefits from the procurement financed by Multilateral Development Banks?

• Autor(a) principal: Martínez-Galán, Enrique
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Proença, Isabel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/28077
• topic: Multilateral Development Banks; Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimator; Public Procurement

We use a gravity model to inquire about the factors that influence the amount of public procurement awarded by developing countries with funding from Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), based on 169 000 contracts. We reach four main conclusions. First, procurement disproportionately benefits firms of low- and middle-income countries and not those of MDBs' larger shareholders. Second, firms of upper-middle-income countries can compete successfully with those of developed countries. These two conclusions are in line with MDBs' development mandate. However, we also find that certain MDBs favour domestic firms and that having good diplomatic relations matters when awarding contracts.