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1. 2024 Lincoln Institute Scholars Program

   Oportunidades de becas
   Enero 2024

   The Lincoln Institute Scholars Program provides an opportunity for recent PhDs (one to two years post-graduate) specializing in public finance or urban economics to work with senior academics. Applications are due March 8, 2024, by 11:59 p.m. (EDT).

2. “Mayor’s Desk” Book Highlights Crucial Work of Local Government Leaders

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2023
   By Kristina McGeehan, November 7, 2023

   20 innovative leaders from five continents share their struggles and successes, along with strategies for making cities more equitable, sustainable, and healthy places to live and work.

3. Land Matters Podcast: Confronting Extreme Heat in Africa: A Conversation with the Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Diciembre 2022
   By Anthony Flint, December 12, 2022

   The mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, discusses appointing Africa’s first chief heat officer, fighting climate change with land use planning, and overhauling the property tax system to ensure fiscal sustinability.

4. Book provides first overview of property tax in Africa

   Comunicados de prensa
   Junio 26, 2017

5. Infrastructure and Land Policies

   Comunicados de prensa
   Mayo 1, 2013

   For Immediate ReleaseContact: Anthony Flint 617-503-2116 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 30, 2013) – The critical importance of infrastructure in global cities – including new strategies in its development,...

6. Case Study: Community Toilets and the Challenge of Urban Sanitation in Nairobi, Kenya

   Otro
   Octubre 2018
   Carlos Rufín and Johann Frield

   The case focuses on the growth of community toilets in Nairobi’s sprawling informal settlements.

7. Land Lines, Julio 2017

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2017
   Editado por Maureen Clarke

   En este número: estrategias para revitalizar ciudades pequeñas; GASB y el costo de incentivos fiscales a la propiedad; el futuro de ingresos de escuelas públicas del impuesto sobre la propiedad; y una iniciativa que explorará lazos humanos con la tierra.

8. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

9. Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries

   Libros
   Abril 2013
   Edited by Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, and Deborah L. Wetzel

   This work uses case studies of urban financing mechanisms in China, India, and Brazil to help decision makers in developing countries address the challenges of rapid metropolitan growth. The report...

10. Land Value Taxation

    Theory, Evidence, and Practice
    Libros
    Mayo 2009
    Edited by Richard F. Dye and Richard W. England

    This book, intended for the general reader curious about land and its taxation, brings together 12 leading scholars and practitioners to share their views on the theories and practice of land value...