摘要：We examine the impact of public procurement policy on aid inflows, in Fiji, a small developing island economy in the Pacific. Prior to 2010, Fiji did not have a strong and detailed public procurement policy. Therefore, in the study, we examine the short-run and long-run impact of adopting an improved (new) public procurement policy on the aid inflows from the bilateral donors: Australia, United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), Japan, Korea Republic, France, and Germany. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) procedure is used to examine cointegration and the subsequent short-run and long-run effects. Additionally, the model incorporates per capita income, financial development, and crisis as a structural dummy; and the presence of threshold effect on aid inflows is examined. The results show that procurement legislation, financial development, per capita income and crisis have a long-run association with the aid inflows. New public procurement legislation has a positive effect on aid inflows from Australia, EU, Germany and the overall aid. In short-run, procurement legislation has a positive effect on aid inflows from Korea Republic only; and the new procurement policy and financial development have a long-run positive effect on aid inflows to Fiji. Overall, improved procurement policies, a well-developed financial sector development and a reasonable level of growth will bolster aid inflows whereas political uncertainty and global financial crisis retard aid inflows.
其他摘要：We examine the impact of public procurement policy on aid inflows, in Fiji, a small developing island economy in the Pacific. Prior to 2010, Fiji did not have a strong and detailed public procurement policy. Therefore, in the study, we examine the short-run and long-run impact of adopting an improved (new) public procurement policy on the aid inflows from the bilateral donors: Australia, United Nations (UN), European Union (EU), Japan, Korea Republic, France, and Germany. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) procedure is used to examine cointegration and the subsequent short-run and long-run effects. Additionally, the model incorporates per capita income, financial development, and crisis as a structural dummy; and the presence of threshold effect on aid inflows is examined. The results show that procurement legislation, financial development, per capita income and crisis have a long-run association with the aid inflows. New public procurement legislation has a positive effect on aid inflows from Australia, EU, Germany and the overall aid. In short-run, procurement legislation has a positive effect on aid inflows from Korea Republic only; and the new procurement policy and financial development have a long-run positive effect on aid inflows to Fiji. Overall, improved procurement policies, a well-developed financial sector development and a reasonable level of growth will bolster aid inflows whereas political uncertainty and global financial crisis retard aid inflows. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.28.5.17292
