Taxes and land in Eastern Europe
05.08.2013
Senior fellow Joan Youngman traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia, with a delegation from the Lincoln Institute for a workshop on market value-based taxation of real property at the Center of Excellence in Finance, a leading training institution for public officials. The work was with participants from six Eastern Europe nations to compare international experiences and draw lessons for the successful implementation of value-based property taxes. The group analyzed property tax bases and valuation systems from the perspective of revenue capacity, fiscal policy, property rights, administrative efficiency, and land use incentives.
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The perils of urbanization
05.06.2013
To accomodate the many millions of mostly poor rural migrants streaming into megacities in the developing world, planners must prevail in establishing a grid -- the framework for future urban expansion. That was the message from Joan Clos, executive director of UN-HABITAT, the United Nations organization concerned with helping developing world cities establish basic services, housing, and infrastructure, at a symposium last week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog, co-sponsored by the Lincoln Institute.
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The infrastructure of everything
05.01.2013
The critical importance of infrastructure in global cities – including new strategies in its development, financing, and maintenance – is examined in the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s latest publication, Infrastructure and Land Policies.The volume, based on the 7th annual Land Policy Conference held in 2012, addresses energy (electricity and natural gas), telecommunications (telephone and Internet), transportation (airports, railways, roads, seaports, and waterways), and water supply and sanitation (drinking water, irrigation, and wastewater treatment).
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