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Public Procurement Regulation in (a) Crisis? Global Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)
Book
Arrowsmith, S., RA Butler, L., La Chimia, A., & Yukins, C. (Eds.). (2021). Public Procurement Regulation in (a) Crisis? Global Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Hart Publishing

This timely book provides the first systematic analysis of global public procurement regulation and policy during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Through both thematic chapters and national case studies, this book: - explores the adequacy of tr... Read More about Public Procurement Regulation in (a) Crisis? Global Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Public procurement and aid effectiveness: a roadmap under construction (2019)
Book
A. La Chimia, & P. Trepte (Eds.), (2019). Public procurement and aid effectiveness: a roadmap under construction

This edited book fills a crucial gap in the procurement literature by collecting contributions by the most prominent aid and procurement experts from both academia and practice. It explores the economic, political and legal relationship between procu... Read More about Public procurement and aid effectiveness: a roadmap under construction.

Corruption and procurement : recalibrating the sights (2019)
Book Chapter
Trepte, P. (2019). Corruption and procurement : recalibrating the sights. In A. La Chimia, & P. Trepte (Eds.), Public procurement and aid effectiveness: a roadmap under construction (137-171). Oxford: Hart Publishing

Article challenging current approaches to addressing corruption through public procurement regulations, seeking to debunk existing theories and approaches through a sustained and supported critique of the bases for these approaches. Whilst not provid... Read More about Corruption and procurement : recalibrating the sights.

Development Aid Procurement & the UNGPs on Business & Human Rights: challenges and opportunities to move towards ‘the new frontier of Buying Justice’ (2018)
Book Chapter
LA CHIMIA, A. (2018). Development Aid Procurement & the UNGPs on Business & Human Rights: challenges and opportunities to move towards ‘the new frontier of Buying Justice’. In G. Quinot, & S. Williams-Elegbe (Eds.), Procurement Regulation for 21st century Africa (31-78). Cape Town: Juta Law

This chapter engages with the Procurement and Business and Human Rights debate focusing on one specific sector of procurement that has been, thus far, neglected by both human rights and procurement experts, namely development aid procurement, i.e. th... Read More about Development Aid Procurement & the UNGPs on Business & Human Rights: challenges and opportunities to move towards ‘the new frontier of Buying Justice’.

Food security and the right to food: finding balance in the 2012 Food Assistance Convention (2016)
Journal Article
La Chimia, A. (2016). Food security and the right to food: finding balance in the 2012 Food Assistance Convention. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 65(1), 99-137. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589315000500

On 25 April 2012, after years of negotiations delayed by halts and setbacks, the Food Assistance Convention was adopted—the latest in a series of agreements that since 1967 have regulated the international provision of food aid. Great expectations ha... Read More about Food security and the right to food: finding balance in the 2012 Food Assistance Convention.

Cui bono? Scope, rationales and consequences of the exemption for development procurement in the revised text of the GPA (2015)
Journal Article
La Chimia, A. (2015). Cui bono? Scope, rationales and consequences of the exemption for development procurement in the revised text of the GPA

This article critically analyses the scope and coverage of the exemption for development procurement introduced in Art II of the revised text of the GPA. It considers the implications of this exemption in terms of coherence and consistency with the G... Read More about Cui bono? Scope, rationales and consequences of the exemption for development procurement in the revised text of the GPA.