This study comes to examine ways and means of enhancing the performance and efficiency of the Palestinian local governments through encouraging community participation. In addition, to know the right ways to increase participations of council's members as well as the community citizens'...

This research paper aims to state possible causes of high return volatility and stock markets' crises in developed economies, using a sample of seven stock developed markets, covering a period of thirty-six months (1998 to 2000). In order to determine which are the most predicting variables that...

Purpose: This study aims to analyze major concerns facing the Palestinian local governments in order to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency in managing local governments.Methodology: A special questionnaire was developed to collect the perception of the municipalities'...

This paper aims to examine one of the most important issues in the international corporate laws, which is the issue of share repurchases known as treasury shares. This paper investigated corporate laws, stock exchange regulations, research literatures and stock trading volume for repurchase...

This paper is aimed to present a theoretical framework of financing subsidized housing, considering the experience of a developing country, which is Palestine. The paper suggested new innovative techniques related to financing subsidized housing programs that may be offered through public firms,...

This study was intended to examine the public finance of social budget allocations in Palestine. In order to suggest measures for improvement concerning the social allocations in general and to the child budget in specific. To accomplish this purpose, a depth analysis of social budget matters,...

To cope up with the causes of housing shortages and to facilitate offering residential housing units especially for low income families, governments in both developed and developing countries, the study discusses the possible methods of financing subsidized housing in the developing countries...