Public Procurement Efficiency and Enforcement: Evidence from Kazakhstan and Russia

Rodionova Y. Balaeva O. Yakovlev A. Tkachenko A.
2026 Routledge

International Journal of Public Administration
2026 #49 Issue 1 1 - 13 pp.

This paper examines the role of enforcement institutions and public procurement efficiency in two transition economies. Based on a survey of suppliers in Kazakhstan and Russia, the analysis reveals significant differences in public procurement efficiency assessments. Kazakhstani suppliers, on average, evaluate public procurement efficiency lower and report a higher number of procurement problems. These differences can be explained by variations in enforcement practices and weak mechanisms for protecting supplier rights in the case of procurers’ non-compliance with obligations in Kazakhstan. Thus, we empirically show that Kazakhstani suppliers encountering such formal procedural violations during the contract execution stage made significantly lower assessments of public procurement efficiency.

developing countries , Kazakhstan , law enforcement , Public procurement regulation , Russia

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Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, HSE University, Moscow, Russian Federation
School of Business, HSE University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Department of Economics, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

Institute for Industrial and Market Studies
School of Business
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Department of Economics

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