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1. Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad

   Differing Interpretations, Equity Impacts, and Enabling Conditions
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2020
   Anjali Mahendra, Robin King, Erin Gray, Maria Hart, Laura Azeredo, Luana Betti, Surya Prakash, Amartya Deb, Elleni Ashebir, and Asmaa Ibrahim

   This paper presents analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of urban land value capture instruments based on three case studies from the global south. These include the Lideta redevelopment in...

2. Doing Bad by Doing Good?

   An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban Informality
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe Dorna

   This paper has two different aims. First, we investigate the effects of informal settlements upgrading programs through a systematic review synthesizing the information provided by evaluations of...

3. Distributive Impacts and Support for Mass Transportation Projects

   An Experimental Evaluation in Bogotá, Colombia
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2018
   Alishia C. Holland

   Who supports mass infrastructure projects? Mass transportation infrastructure, such as metros and highways, is hugely expensive. But it also can deliver widespread benefits to users and windfall...

4. Is Progressive Property Tax Progressive?

   Evidences from São Paulo
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2018
   Ciro Biderman and Yuri Camara Batista

   This paper uses an unusual opportunity to estimate the capitalization of the property tax on property value. In 2002 the city of São Paulo changed the property tax structure moving from...

5. Urban Property and Land Taxation in Argentina

   The Challenge of Decentralization
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2017
   Cynthia Goytia and Marcela Cristini

   The unsatisfactory operation of the fiscal federalism in Argentina has resulted in new reform initiatives to reduce the imbalances between collections of own resources and expenditures between the...

6. Land Values, Property Rights, and Home Ownership

   Implications for Property Taxation in Peru
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2018
   Zackary Hawley, Juan José Miranda, and W. Charles Sawyer

   This paper examines land values and the associated property tax implications of formal property rights, informal property rights, and squatting. Using data from the Peruvian Living Standards...

7. A Global Compendium and Meta-Analysis of Property Tax Systems

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2014
   Richard Almy

   This report is a global compendium of significant features of systems for recurrently taxing land and buildings. It is based on works in English, many of which were published by the Lincoln Institute...

8. Towards Property Tax Compliance

   A Case Study of Attitudes Toward Paying Property Taxes in Jamaica
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2016
   Tina M. F. Beale, Rochelle A. Channer Miller, Amani Ishemo, and Cadien A. Murray-Stuart

   Jamaica’s property tax compliance rate has consistently been described as “low,” “dismal,” and “inadequate.” Its performance is of utmost importance to the...

9. Could Land-Based Financing Help Create Fiscal Space for Investment by Brazil’s Municipalities?

   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2016
   David Michael Vetter and Marcia Vetter

   Within a framework of tight fiscal controls and fiscal discipline, could Brazil’s municipalities generate fiscal space for investment and provision of social needs by increased use of land-...