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What Is the Value of Infrastructure Maintenance?
A SurveyPonenciasMayo 2013Felix RiojaPublic 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...
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How and Why Does the Quality of Infrastructure Service Delivery Vary?
PonenciasMayo 2013George R. G. ClarkeIn 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...
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Assessing the Infrastructure Impact of Mega-Events in Emerging Economies
PonenciasMayo 2013Victor A. MathesonMega-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...
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Metropolitan Cities
Their Rise, Role, and FuturePonenciasAbril 2013Shahid YusufIn 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...
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Metropolitan Cities in the National Fiscal and Institutional Structure
PonenciasAbril 2013Paul SmokeIn 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...
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The Decentralization of Governance in Metropolitan Areas
PonenciasAbril 2013Roy W. BahlThe 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...
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Institutions and Politics of Metropolitan Management
PonenciasAbril 2013Inder Sud and Serder YilmazIn 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...
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Metropolitan Public Finance
An OverviewPonenciasAbril 2013Richard M. Bird and Enid SlackThis 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...
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Property Taxes in Metropolitan Cities
PonenciasAbril 2013In 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...
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Grant Financing of Metropolitan Areas
A Review of Principles and Worldwide PracticesPonenciasAbril 2013Anwar M. ShahThe 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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