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IV. FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION:
SORTING OUT ROLES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES — A DISCUSSION
The quickening pace of economic change throughout the region places increasing demands on the public sector to respond strategically and efficiently. Governments are discovering that they must rethink intragovernmental fiscal relationships and seek out an appropriate and sustainable degree of fiscal decentralization. |
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Mustafa A.S. Abdelnabi Natshe, Mayor of Hebron Municipality, West Bank and Gaza Najib Akesbi, Institut Agronomique et Vˇtˇrinaire, Morocco Atef Alawneh, Deputy Minister of Finance, West Bank and Gaza Hussein Al-A’Raj, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Local Government, West Bank and Gaza Ali Lutfi Al-Dajani, Economist at the Islamic Development Bank, Saudi Arabia Ghassan Al-Shakah, Mayor of the Municipality of Nablus, West Bank and Gaza Robert Ebel, Intergovernmental Economist at the World Bank William Fox, Professor at the University of Tennessee, USA Korel Goymen, Professor at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey Antione Haddad, Partner-in-Charge at Dar At-Tanmiya LTD. Salem Helles, Professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, West Bank and Gaza Rana Ziad Houry, Research Associate at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, Lebanon Ali Jarbawi, Professor at Birzeit University, West Bank and Gaza Ersin Kalaycioglu, Professor at Bogazici University, Turkey Hamad Kasasbeh, Director General of the Cities and Villages Development Bank, Jordan Mohamed Kurah, Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Enterprises in Finance Ministry, Yemen Nicolas Levrat, Professor at the Universitˇ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Atia Lorayedh, Chargˇ des Affairs Fiscales, Tunisia Mimoun Lmimouni, Directeur de la Centralisation Financi¸re et Comptable a la Tresorerie Gˇnˇrale du Royaume, Minist¸re des Finances, Morocco Jun Ma, Manager of the Japan Brain Trust at the World Bank Teresa Garcia-Mila, Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Abla Nashashibi, Budget Director in the Ministry of Finance, West Bank and Gaza Gabor Peteri, Director of Research for the Hungarian Association of Municipalities, Hungary Kingley Robotham, World Bank Resident Mission, West Bank and Gaza Saud Kassim Saleh, Community Development Officer, Social Fund for Development, Yemen Paul Salem, Director of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, Lebanon Kamal Shehadi, Director of Research at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, Lebanon Paul Bernd Spahn, Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Germany Fikret Toksoz, Secretary General of the Union of the Municipalities in the Mamara Region, Turkey Christine Wallich, Senior Economist at the World Bank E. Unal Zenginobuz, Assistant Professor of Economics at Bogazici University, Turkey Isa Ziadeh, Mayor of Ramallah Municipality, West Bank and Gaza |
