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1. International land policy conference on property rights June 1-3 2008

   Comunicados de prensa
   Mayo 22, 2008

2. The City-CLT Partnership

   Municipal Support for Community Land Trusts
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2008
   John Emmeus Davis and Rick Jacobus

   Based on a review of three dozen municipal programs and interviews with local officials and community land trust (CLT) practitioners, this report describes how cities are investing in existing CLTs...

3. Transforming Community Development with Land Information Systems

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Marzo 2008
   Sarah Treuhaft and G. Thomas Kingsley

   A new era of data democracy has arrived, enabling tremendous improvements in land information systems and opening up a wealth of opportunities for the practice of community development and the...

4. Fiscal Decentralization and Land Policies

   Libros
   Mayo 2008
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   The study of fiscal decentralization has important policy implications for urban growth management, environmental conservation, and property taxation. First, fiscal decentralization gives local...

5. Opportunities and Risks of Fiscal Decentralization

   A Developing Country Perspective
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Roy Bahl

   Despite the overwhelming support for decentralization programs, there is little agreement among scholars and policy makers, and scant empirical evidence, as to whether the devolution of power to...

6. Local Revenues Under Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries

   Linking Policy Reform, Governance, and Capacity
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Paul Smoke

   Paul Smoke examines local revenue generation under fiscal decentralization in developing countries. He finds that local capacity for generating own-source funds is rare due to a lack of attention to...

7. Local Service Provision in Selected OECD Countries

   Do Decentralized Operations Work Better?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Ehtisham Ahmad, Giorgio Brosio, and Vito Tanzi

   The authors survey the related literature of decentralization experiences in selected OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation...

8. Political Structure and Exclusionary Zoning

   Are Small Suburbs the Big Problem?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   William A. Fischel

   In this paper, William A. Fischel argues that metropolitan areas with more fragmented and decentralized government structures are more likely to have a lower elasticity of housing supply than those...

9. School Finance Reforms and Property Tax Limitation Measures

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Daniel P. McMillen and Larry D. Singell Jr.

   One of the most controversial issues related to U.S. fiscal federalism is the financing of local public schools through property taxation. In theory, the system follows the principle of matching...

10. Decentralization and Environmental Decision Making

    Ponencias
    Mayo 2008
    Shelby Gerking

    Shelby Gerking analyzes the effect of state tax rates on the disposal of chlorinated solvent wastes in the United States. He finds that changes in the disposal costs of these chemicals as a result of...