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1. Special Assessment Districts and the Financing of Infrastructure in South Africa

   The Innovative Use of a Special Rating Area in Claremont, Cape Town
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2020
   Willard Matiashe and Arthur Germond

   Since 2000, special rating areas (SRAs), also known as Special Assessment Districts and/or city improvement districts (CIDs), have been used to revive urban nodes across the City of Cape Town (Cape...

2. Property Tax Delinquency in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2020
   Jenna DeAngelo

   How does a municipality create a property tax enforcement system that is revenue maximizing (property tax collection is as close to 100 percent as possible) but also fair (homeowners are able to...

3. Place Database

   Contest Winners Use Maps to Tell Stories of Place
   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2019
   By Emma Zehner, November 15, 2019

   The winning projects from The Place Database Contest explored complex policy questions related to climate mitigation, affordable housing, and sprawl. The contest asked participants to use The Place...

4. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

5. The Past and Future of the Urban Property Tax

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Grant Driessen and Steven Sheffrin

   For U.S. cities, the property tax is the single largest source of own-source revenue, but the extent to which different cities rely on property tax revenues varies significantly. Grant Driessen and...

6. An Evaluation of China’s Land Policy and Urban Housing Markets

   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Joyce Y. Man

   In this paper, Joyce Y. Man examines the evolution of Chinese housing policies and the growth of the Chinese housing market since the reforms of 1998, when the Chinese government ended its...

7. The Future Role of the Property Tax in the Funding of K12 Education in the United States

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Andrew Reschovsky

   This paper reviews the role of the property tax in funding K–12 education. At present, local and state governments each contribute a national average of 44 percent of the funds spent on public...

8. Nontraditional Public School Funding Sources

   Trends, Issues, and Outlook
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Henry Coleman

   This paper by Henry A. Coleman examines a wide range of nontraditional revenue sources, including local-option personal income and general sales taxes, user charges and fees, gaming revenues, private...

9. 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...

10. 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...