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1. Amid Fiscal Strain, New Database Allows Custom Comparisons of City Finances

   Comunicados de prensa
   Septiembre 12, 2013

   For Immediate Release Contact: Anthony Flint 617-503-2116 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (September 12, 2013) – As Detroit faces bankruptcy and many other cities across the U.S. address an ongoing crisis in...

2. “Legacy Cities” Can Revitalize by Building on Assets, Lincoln Institute Report says

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   Junio 24, 2013

   For Immediate ReleaseContact: Anthony Flint 617-503-2116 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (June 25, 2013) – Enduring assets such as downtowns, parks, transit systems, and academic and cultural institutions are the...

3. Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries

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   Abril 22, 2013

   For Immediate ReleaseContact: Anthony Flint 617-503-2116 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 22 2013) – A new book published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy spells out needed reforms in the governance of...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. Institutions and Politics of Metropolitan Management

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Inder Sud and Serder Yilmaz

   In this paper by Inder Sud and Serdar Yilmaz, the authors point out the fact that metropolitan cities play a vital role in economic development. In most countries they account for a significant share...

7. 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...

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. 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...