ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights some of the key policies for each nation and how they translate into community benefits in developed economies: Australia, Netherlands and Wales, compared to those in less developed economies: Indonesia, Rwanda and Zambia. In less developed countries, the number of social public procurement studies is particularly small. The presence of otherwise of layers of policies, regulations and guidance from principals in central government and their agents on the ground spending public money is not necessarily the effective driving force in using public spending to deliver broader benefits for communities. Professors Christine Harland and Jan Telgen are founders of International Research Study of Public Procurement which, since 2002 has explored contrasting international approaches for the use of public procurement as a lever of broader government reform. Public procurement of the nation is managed through the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa comprising 19 countries.
