A CGD blog. The World Bank has issued a new procurement rule mandating that, for Bank-financed civil works contracting, bidders must allocate 30 percent or more of the total labor cost under the contract to employ local staff, unless otherwise agreed in project negotiations. The rule isn’t likely to have much e…
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Charles Kenny writes about global development — what’s working, what isn’t, and how the world can do better. An economist who spent fifteen years at the World Bank, he is now a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.
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