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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. How and Why Does the Quality of Infrastructure Service Delivery Vary?

    Ponencias
    Mayo 2013
    George R. G. Clarke

    In this paper, presented by George R. G. Clarke at Lincoln Institute’s 2012 Conference on Infrastructure and Land Policy the author observes that access to infrastructure and the quality of...

  3. Assessing the Infrastructure Impact of Mega-Events in Emerging Economies

    Ponencias
    Mayo 2013
    Victor A. Matheson

    Mega-events such as the Olympics or the World Cup are associated with large infrastructure investments and promises of high economic returns. However, the evidence from host economies shows that...

  4. Metropolitan Cities

    Their Rise, Role, and Future
    Ponencias
    Abril 2013
    Shahid Yusuf

    In this paper, the author points out that the world’s population crossed the 7 billion mark in 2011, more than half of it in cities. Each week the ranks of urban residents increase by 1million and on...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. Property Taxes in Metropolitan Cities

    Ponencias
    Abril 2013

    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...

  10. 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...

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