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1. Lincoln Institute hosts event in Beijing on local public finance

   Comunicados de prensa
   Mayo 14, 2013

   For Immediate ReleaseContact: Anthony Flint 617-503-2116 BEIJING (May 14, 2013) – Local public finance in rapidly growing cities in China will be examined in a symposium jointly organized by the...

2. Lincoln Institute connects junior scholars, senior economists, journal editors

   Comunicados de prensa
   Mayo 2, 2013

   For Immediate ReleaseContact: Anthony Flint 617-503-2116 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (May 2, 2013) – The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy launched the fourth annual Lincoln Scholars program this month, bringing...

3. Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries

   Comunicados de prensa
   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. Infrastructure and Land Policies

   Libros
   Mayo 2013
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Karin L. Brandt

   More than 50 percent of the global population resides in urban areas where land policy and infrastructure interactions facilitate economic opportunities, affect the quality of life, and influence...

5. Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries

   Libros
   Abril 2013
   Edited by Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, and Deborah L. Wetzel

   This work uses case studies of urban financing mechanisms in China, India, and Brazil to help decision makers in developing countries address the challenges of rapid metropolitan growth. The report...

6. 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...

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...