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1. Institutional Investment in China’s Infrastructure

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2019
   Weiping Wu

   Rapid growth in post-reform China has resulted in a high demand for infrastructure and the need for sustained mechanisms of financing. As public finances are already overstretched at the local level...

2. Exploring the Use of Land Value Capture Instruments for Green Resilient Infrastructure Benefits

   A Framework Applied in Cali, Colombia
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2019
   Stelios Grafakos, Alexandra Tsatsou, Luca D'Acci, James Kostaras, Adriana Patricia López Valencia, Nohemi Ramirez Aranda, and Barbara Summers

   Building resilient infrastructure is one of the major challenges cities face due to urbanization rates and climate change. Financing these investments is an additional challenge particularly for...

3. Financing Transit Oriented Development by Value Capture

   Negotiating Better Public Infrastructure
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2019
   Erwin van der Krabben, Ary Samsura, and Jinshuo Wang

   A recent World Bank report warns of the increasing problems of car-dependent urbanization (Suzuki et al. 2015), particularly in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. The integration of...

4. Is Informal Transit Land-Oriented? Investigating the Links Between Informal Transit and Land-Use Planning in Quito, Ecuador

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2019
   Julie Gamble and Elisa Puga

   Like many Latin American cities, Quito has undergone rapid urban transformation due to transportation interventions aimed at improving equity and environmental outcomes. Yet, informal transport...

5. Designing Land Value Capture Tools in the Context of Complex Tenurial and Deficient Land Use Regulatory Regimes in Accra, Ghana

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Março 2019
   Samuel Banleman Biitir

   Rapid urbanization has increased the demand for urban infrastructure services. Municipalities have attempted to finance infrastructure services with value capture instruments. The paper highlights...

6. The Costs and Benefits of Urban Expansion

   Evidence from Mexico, 1990–2010
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Março 2019
   Jorge Montejano, Paavo Monkkonen, Erick Guerra, and Camilo Caudillo

   Urbanization is generally linked to economic growth, and agglomeration economies mean that people in larger cities are more productive. However, urban expansion is also associated with congestion,...