Governments and state-owned enterprises purchase a wide variety of goods, services and public works from the private sector, from basic computer equipment to the construction of roads. Public procurement is a key economic activity of governments that represents a significant percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) generating huge financial flows, estimated on average at 10-15% of GD…
Through its programmes the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation seeks to support reflections and endeavours on issues of a global nature and on crucial problems to the collective search of a better future for society. In this context the Foundation created in 1993 the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences, with Professor Immanuel Wallerstein as its chair, which produced th…