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Buy-In for Buyouts
The Case for Managed Retreat from Flood ZonesEnfoques en políticas de sueloSeptiembre 2016Robert Freudenberg, Ellis Calvin, Laura Tolkoff, and Dare BrawleyThis report offers policy recommendations to increase participation in buyout programs and to make them more effective tools for building resilience in coastal communities. Based on a study of...
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Recuperação de Mais-Valias Fundiárias na América Latina
Políticas e Instrumentos para o Desenvolvimento UrbanoEnfoques en políticas de sueloSeptiembre 2014Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...
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Implementación de la recuperación de plusvalías en América Latina
Políticas e instrumentos para el desarrollo urbanoEnfoques en políticas de sueloFebrero 2014Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...
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Implementing Value Capture in Latin America
Policies and Tools for Urban DevelopmentEnfoques en políticas de sueloJunio 2013This report provides a review of land value capture's antecedents in Latin America and its longstanding presence in the urban planning agenda. It also examines a variety of land value capture...
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Rethinking Property Tax Incentives for Business
Enfoques en políticas de sueloJunio 2012State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness,...
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Economic Regulation of Utility Infrastructure
PonenciasMayo 2013Janice A. BeecherIn this paper, Janice A. Beecher examines public infrastructure as having characteristics of both public and private goods that earn a separate classification as a toll good. Utilities demonstrate a...
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The Unit Approach to the Taxation of Railroad and Public Utility Property
PonenciasMayo 2013Gary C. Cornia, David J. Crapo, and Lawrence C. WaltersAdministering a property tax system presents ongoing challenges under the best of circumstances. Whether it involves keeping taxpayer rolls up to date, pursuing tax evaders, or updating taxable...
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The Location Effects of Alternative Road-Pricing Policies
PonenciasMayo 2013Alex AnasJust as physical infrastructure affects urban development patterns, the taxation of motor vehicle use and the pricing of road infrastructure shape land policy by affecting location choices and land...
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Chicago and Its Skyway
Lessons from an Urban MegaprojectPonenciasMayo 2013Louise Nelson DybleIn this paper, Louise Nelson Dyble examines the history of political leadership throughout the Chicago Skyway’s development as a public project and assesses the lessons from its eventual...
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Sustainable Infrastructure for Urban Growth
PonenciasMayo 2013Katherine SierraSustainability increasingly affects infrastructure investment patterns, particularly in cities in developing countries where urban populations will more than double—increasing by 2.6 billion people—...
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