Mohammad Abdul Razaq Dabbas (1927 – 21 August 2014) was a Jordanian politician. Dabbas was born in

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. He studied economics at the

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, receiving a master's degree. He also completed a study of administration of

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. Dabbas returned to Jordan and worked amongst others as director general of the Income and Sales Tax Department and the State Budget Department. He later served as

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between 1976 and 1979 in the government of Mudar Badran. During his time in office he was engaged in obtaining financial aid for Jordan. In 1979 he obtained funding from

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, which had severed ties from Jordan from 1970, for the funding a fertiliser plant near Aqaba and a

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mine near the

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. For the 1980 fiscal year he expected that Jordan would continue to keep the same financial aid from Arab partners, while seeing a decline in US contributions.

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