Causes and Costs of Procurement Irregularities in Ghana’s District Assemblies
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2019
Pages:
58-67
Received:
16 September 2019
Accepted:
9 October 2019
Published:
26 October 2019
Abstract: The Ghana government introduced procurement regulation in 2003 to govern the public procurement function in the country. However, high levels of irregularities still abound in the performance of the procurement function. The Auditor-General’s reports for the years 2014 to 2018, revealed procurement irregularities at the country’s District Assemblies. These irregularities could pose high corruption risk to the procurement process by creating fertile grounds for fraud and corruption in public procurement practice at the District Assemblies. Although articles have been written about procurement practice in Ghana, not much has been said about the practice at the district level. This article therefore seeks to fill this gap. The article throws a critical searchlight on public procurement practice at the country’s District Assemblies. The methodology employed is a doctrinal one whereby the adherence or otherwise to public procurement laws of the country by the District Assemblies is looked at. The analysis of procurement practice at the assemblies has revealed that the hub of the matter facing public procurement in Ghana is the elusiveness of implementation of the tenets of the procurement regime. Having identified the weaknesses in the procurement practice, the article suggests palliatives by resorting to innovations reported in other jurisdictions to address the gap.
Abstract: The Ghana government introduced procurement regulation in 2003 to govern the public procurement function in the country. However, high levels of irregularities still abound in the performance of the procurement function. The Auditor-General’s reports for the years 2014 to 2018, revealed procurement irregularities at the country’s District Assemblie...
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Construction of Government Ruled by Law from the Perspective of Social Governance
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2019
Pages:
68-72
Received:
7 October 2019
Accepted:
2 December 2019
Published:
7 December 2019
Abstract: The legalization of government behavior is the key link of social governance innovation. Social governance innovation is not only the time adaptation and power accumulation at the historical level, but also the value orientation and connotation exploration at the normative level, as well as the horizon expansion and path setting at the methodological level. The systematic innovation of social governance determines that the construction of government ruled by law must focus on regulating the relations between the government and society, and the internal relations within the government by adopting the practical path of “work in concert both inside and outside, work in connection from up to down” guided by the methodological principle of “integration”. The main leader of social governance is the government. The government needs to play a leading role in the realization of social governance innovation, actively introduce social forces, jointly promote the innovation of social governance system, and improve social governance capacity. To give full play to the main role of the government, it is necessary for the government to continuously improve the system construction of social governance and promote the legalization of social governance. The government under the rule of law needs not only the rule of law system, but also the rule of law culture. The government should carry out the construction of the rule of law culture for the government staff, who are the direct subjects participating in social governance, and incorporate the assessment conditions of "rule of law" into their personal career development, so as to promote the government staff to identify with the rule of law culture.
Abstract: The legalization of government behavior is the key link of social governance innovation. Social governance innovation is not only the time adaptation and power accumulation at the historical level, but also the value orientation and connotation exploration at the normative level, as well as the horizon expansion and path setting at the methodologic...
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Analysis on the Sustainable Development Mode of Law Undergraduate Education in China in the New Era
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2019
Pages:
73-78
Received:
5 November 2019
Accepted:
2 December 2019
Published:
10 December 2019
Abstract: At present, China has entered a new era of development, which is reported by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China based on the overall judgment of the development stage of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In the new era, China's legal education should not only follow traditional good practices and learn from experiences, but also be prepared to welcome new challenges, thus seeking a new development in line with China's national conditions and reflecting the characteristics of the new era. In the new era, law undergraduate education in China should adopt a problem-oriented, major contradictions-focused and comprehensive and all-round development-targeted sustainable development mode. Sustainable development direction of law education has been prescribed by China's relevant laws and regulations and documents, but the training objectives of most colleges and universities are mixed and diverse, most of which are not implemented, the relationship between the training objectives and the course of law undergraduate as well as the guidance effect of the objectives on the courses is not clearly defined. Correct educational concept is essential to the development of law undergraduate education. As the concept of sustainable development has become popular all over the world, which should also be adhered to by China's law undergraduate education because the new era requires the law undergraduate education in China to be forward-looking, sustainable and coordinated. More concretely, the sustainable development should be all-round, systematic and comprehensive, and should be mainly reflected in the multi-level development objectives, diversified development models and innovative courses. Follow this development model, which can really improve the quality and level of China's law undergraduate education in the future.
Abstract: At present, China has entered a new era of development, which is reported by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China based on the overall judgment of the development stage of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In the new era, China's legal education should not only follow traditional good practices and learn from experiences...
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