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Detroit and the Property Tax
Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance RevenueEnfoques en políticas de sueloNoviembre 2015Gary Sands and Mark SkidmoreThis report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...
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Recuperação de Mais-Valias Fundiárias na América Latina
Políticas e Instrumentos para o Desenvolvimento UrbanoEnfoques en políticas de sueloSeptiembre 2014Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...
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Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World
Enfoques en políticas de sueloMayo 2014Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. LinnThe 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...
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Implementación de la recuperación de plusvalías en América Latina
Políticas e instrumentos para el desarrollo urbanoEnfoques en políticas de sueloFebrero 2014Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...
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Implementing Value Capture in Latin America
Policies and Tools for Urban DevelopmentEnfoques en políticas de sueloJunio 2013This report provides a review of land value capture's antecedents in Latin America and its longstanding presence in the urban planning agenda. It also examines a variety of land value capture...
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Rethinking Property Tax Incentives for Business
Enfoques en políticas de sueloJunio 2012State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness,...
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The Past and Future of the Urban Property Tax
PonenciasNoviembre 2015Grant Driessen and Steven SheffrinFor U.S. cities, the property tax is the single largest source of own-source revenue, but the extent to which different cities rely on property tax revenues varies significantly. Grant Driessen and...
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An Evaluation of China’s Land Policy and Urban Housing Markets
PonenciasNoviembre 2015In this paper, Joyce Y. Man examines the evolution of Chinese housing policies and the growth of the Chinese housing market since the reforms of 1998, when the Chinese government ended its...
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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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Is Location Fate?
Distributional Aspects of SchoolingPonenciasMayo 2014Eric HanushekEric A. Hanushek analyzes the impact of human capital on economic outcomes, arguing that cognitive skills are a better measure of human capital than years of schooling. He focuses on urban schools...
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