1 Public Governance and Territorial Development by Martin FORST OECD - Paris Expert Group Meeting on Strengthening Accountability & Transparency and Fighting Corruption in the Arab Region Beirut, October 2003

2 Public Governance > Key to growth Specific areas to link public management and growth –Regulatory Reform –Public budgeting –Others: public sector modernisation, human resource management, local and regional governance, etc.

3 Regulatory Reform Fundamental functions Building of market institutions Protecting citizens in global markets Reducing administrative barriers: Administrative regulation often creates barriers to Trade Investment (local business and FDI) development

4 Regulation – Tools and Issues Performance of regulation and outcomes Regulatory Impact assessment Costs of administrative barriers Sectoral Regulators (Telecom, energy, transport, finance) Local and supranational regulation

5 Budgeting Allocate and spend money the best way possible Barriers to effective budgeting can be strong Transparency, accountability, performance based Forward-looking dimension Budgeting know-how –budgeting date base –best practices –country reviews

6 Working methods Best practice Case Studies Country or Theme-based reviews Handbooks and Toolkits Know-how dissemination networks Country/Regional Action Programmes Monitoring Instruments