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1. What Is the Value of Infrastructure Maintenance?

   A Survey
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   Felix Rioja

   Public infrastructure has been established as the foundation for the productive activities of a country. Road and rail networks, water systems, power generating and distribution systems, and...

2. Metropolitan Cities in the National Fiscal and Institutional Structure

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Paul Smoke

   In this paper, Paul Smoke points out that an important yet neglected issue in the study of urban public finance in developing countries is how urban and metropolitan governments are situated in the...

3. The Decentralization of Governance in Metropolitan Areas

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Roy W. Bahl

   The theory and practice of providing government services in metropolitan areas are subjects that have attracted a great deal of attention in the industrial countries but have been largely ignored in...

4. Metropolitan Public Finance

   An Overview
   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack

   This paper by Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack is based on their observation that not all big cities are very rich, but they are all, by definition, big, and most of them are also rich relative to...

5. Property Taxes in Metropolitan Cities

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   William J. McCluskey and Riël C. D. Franzsen

   In this paper, William J. McCluskey and Riel C. D. Franzsen review property taxation focusing on metropolitan cities in developing and transitional countries. Since there is no comparative data to...

6. Grant Financing of Metropolitan Areas

   A Review of Principles and Worldwide Practices
   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Anwar M. Shah

   The amounts spent for public services provided in most metropolitan areas are much larger than own-source revenues of local governments, which means that much of the job of financing local services...

7. Metropolitan Public Finances

   The Case of Mumbai
   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Abhay Pethe

   In an attempt to understand public finance in metropolitan regions, this paper by Abhay Pethe presents an analysis of the issues faced by one of the most important urban agglomerations in India: the...

8. Local Nonproperty Revenues

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

   In this paper, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez focuses on the current theory and practice of non-property tax assignments to local urban governments in developing and developed countries. Although the...

9. Paying for Urbanization in China

   Challenges of Municipal Finance in the Twenty-First Century
   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Christine P. Wong

   China is urbanizing, and the pace is accelerating. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported a population of 1.34 billion at year end 2010, fully half of them living in cities (CSY 2011)....

10. Metropolitan Governance and Finance in São Paulo

    Ponencias
    Abril 2013
    Deborah L. Wetzel

    With a population of 11.2 million residents, São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere, and the world’s seventh largest city by population. The city is...