Public Procurement policy as a tool for Alleviating Socio-Economic Disparities: Lesson for Nigeria
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2017
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Department of Political Science, Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria.
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The public procurement systems and practices in most countries, specially developing nations, majorly focus on solving infrastructures problems and acquiring services and goods or items necessary for developmental purposes and the day-day running of state affairs. Against this conventional notion, however, this paper demonstrates the applicability of public procurement to addressing other important societal concerns. Specifically, the paper explores the usefulness of public procurement as a veritable tool for alleviating socioeconomic disparities among groups and categories of people in the society. It concludes by arguing that, following the examples of other countries, Nigeria could maximize her public procurement power to accomplish similar goals through a review and amendment of the country's 1999 Constitutional and the Public Procurement Act of 2007, to bring to bear the socioeconomic realities of the country in her public procurement practice and system. The paper is basically a theoretical and qualitative research. Data for the study were derived mainly from secondary sources; and the descriptive method of qualitative analysis was employed to analyze the data.
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Development, Diversity, Public Procurement, Public Procurement Policy, Socio-Economic Disparity.