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Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad
Differing Interpretations, Equity Impacts, and Enabling ConditionsDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2020Anjali Mahendra, Robin King, Erin Gray, Maria Hart, Laura Azeredo, Luana Betti, Surya Prakash, Amartya Deb, Elleni Ashebir, and Asmaa IbrahimThis 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...
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Doing Bad by Doing Good?
An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban InformalityDocumentos de trabajoMarzo 2019Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe DornaThis 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...
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Distributive Impacts and Support for Mass Transportation Projects
An Experimental Evaluation in Bogotá, ColombiaDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2018Alishia C. HollandWho 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...
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Housing Policies and Urban Development
Lessons from the Latin American Experience, 1960–2010PonenciasNoviembre 2015Eduardo RojasAccess and opportunity are tied in many different ways to location. One’s neighborhood and neighbors can have dramatic effects on health and political, socioeconomic, and education opportunities and...
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Brazil’s Urban Land and Housing Markets
How Well Are They Working?PonenciasMayo 2007David E. DowallAs does the United States, Brazil faces many housing policy challenges. David E. Dowell points out that Brazilian housing is expensive and lacks local services and secure land tenure—a phenomenon...
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Is Progressive Property Tax Progressive?
Evidences from São PauloDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2018Ciro Biderman and Yuri Camara BatistaThis 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...
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Urban Property and Land Taxation in Argentina
The Challenge of DecentralizationDocumentos de trabajoAgosto 2017Cynthia Goytia and Marcela CristiniThe 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...
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Land Values, Property Rights, and Home Ownership
Implications for Property Taxation in PeruDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2018Zackary Hawley, Juan José Miranda, and W. Charles SawyerThis 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...
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A Global Compendium and Meta-Analysis of Property Tax Systems
Documentos de trabajoJunio 2014Richard AlmyThis 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...
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Towards Property Tax Compliance
A Case Study of Attitudes Toward Paying Property Taxes in JamaicaDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2016Tina M. F. Beale, Rochelle A. Channer Miller, Amani Ishemo, and Cadien A. Murray-StuartJamaica’s property tax compliance rate has consistently been described as “low,” “dismal,” and “inadequate.” Its performance is of utmost importance to the...
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