Browsing by Author "Worku, Desalegn"

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    Applicability of Competition Law and Principles in Ethiopia's Public Procurement Law and Practice
    (AAU, 2021-12) Worku, Desalegn; Abay, Solomon (PhD)
    The objective of PP is value for money which is procuring quality goods and services at a lower price at the right time. Thus, this study aims to examine the competitiveness of Ethiopian public procurement and contribute some recommendations. The study uses the ideal Perfectly Competitive Market structure of Economics and International Competition and Public Procurement Models to scrutinize the applicability of competition principles and laws on the Ethiopian public procurement; particularly, focused on Bidders' entry, number of Bidders, dominance, collusion, and the organization of authorities. Moreover, the findings reveal a lack of awareness of PP and competition principles and laws, even though Ethiopia developed standard competition and procurement laws from effective International Models. Furthermore, it exposes the preparations of ambiguous specifications, inappropriate selection of pp method, bid-rigging, lengthy PP, corruption, weak institutional framework, lack of coordination between relevant public bodies, dependency of the authorities or political influence, and other challenges and anticompetition practices. Furthermore, it is recommended; creating competitive Public Procurement by widening the participation of bidders, implementation of performance audit, awareness of bidrigging indications, Coordination, and cooperation between relevant public authorities, enhancing workforce capacity, improving the salary scale, developing independence, political, and budgetary free authority, developing a fast procurement payment system and including E-procurement, Facilitation of self-regulation mechanism, the participation of different stakeholders including media and other relevant recommendations.
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    Poverty Focused Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) For Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2007-08) Worku, Desalegn; Hassen, Syed (PhD)
    The purpose of this paper is to construct 2004 poverty focused social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Addis Ababa, and based on some satellite tables to analyze the poverty situation of the city in the specified period as compared with its achievements in economic growth. In order to avoid some bias and to keep special features of the city as to balance the row and column total Manual estimation method is used. Firstly, an input output table, which helps to balance the unbalanced macro SAM, was constructed. Secondly, a 16 by 16 SAM table was constructed from the city’s Gross domestic product estimate; an input output table derived from the city GDP estimate; and with other official secondary data collected. Thirdly, with the help of CSA welfare monitoring, labor force survey, and other relevant additional official documents as well as with the findings of SAM for Addis Ababa, the social living condition of the city has been investigated. Finally, with the help of standard human poverty level measurement evaluation basic indicator achievements of the city taken into consideration in detail. KEYWORDS: - Social Accounting Matrix, Macro SAM, poverty, economic growth, Satellite table, and, balancing methods.