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Last updated: February 21, 2024
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Michael G. Schaeffer is a former Libya Country Representative for the World Bank and former Public Sector Adviser for the World Bank in Libya. He has more than 30 years of experience in governance, decentralization, public finance, and public investment management, gained in more than 70 countries. He holds an MA in economics and an MSc in natural resource management from the University of Michigan.

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    Libya -- Managing Public Investment After the Revolution: Background, Activities, Results and Proposals
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014-06-30) Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore; Ashur, Wesal Ezeddin; Tommasi, Daniel; Schaeffer, Michael G.
    This report is intended to provide in one single document the background, principal recent and current World Bank activities and the proposed program of technical assistance to the Government in the area of public investment programming and management in post-revolution Libya. Aside from the convenience, both for the Bank and other international partners, of a synthesis of all major assessments and advice provided by the Bank in this central area of public sector management, this report shows the substantial continuity of diagnosis and assistance from the immediate aftermath of the Revolution through mid-2014. The first section recounts the early activities and, against that background, the second section summarizes the activities conducted and initial results achieved during FY2014. The concluding section lists the preliminary agreements with the Government on how to build on those initial results with complementary activities and deepening of a number of initiatives, specifically during FY2015 and with general indications for the subsequent years. The text of the report is limited to a summary of key issues and recommendations, with full details provided in the several annexes.
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    Strengthening Local Government Budgeting and Accountability
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2008-11) Yilmaz, Serdar; Schaeffer, Michael G.
    In many developing and middle-income countries, decentralization reforms are promoting changes in governance structures that are reshaping the relationship between local governments and citizens. The success of these decentralization reforms depends on the existence of sound public financial systems both at the central and local levels. This paper focuses on the role of budgeting as a critical tool in reform efforts, highlighting problems that might impede successful local government budget development and implementation. The attainment of effective local government accountability and transparency is not an end itself, but rather it represents the means to support better decision-making on national and local budgeting. Community based schemes for enhancing local government accountability need to combine legal, political, and administrative mechanisms with proactive community involvement. Of particular importance are the legal and budgetary instruments that require input from local community members on certain local government decisions and instruments that increase accessibility for the press or the general public at large to information on government activities.