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1. Education, Land, and Location

   Libros
   Mayo 2014
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Daphne A. Kenyon

   Because most children throughout the world attend elementary and secondary schools near their homes, where they live usually determines where they go to school. In the United States, the relationship...

2. Instrumentos notables de políticas de suelo en América Latina

   Libros
   Abril 2014
   Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda Furtado

   Based on work presented at the May 2013 Latin American Forum on Noteworthy Instruments of Urban Intervention, this book (which includes work written in Spanish and Portuguese) presents 21 case...

3. 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...

4. 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...

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. 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...

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government

    Ponencias
    Mayo 2010
    Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben

    In this paper, Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben note that the revenue mix for local government changes frequently in response to economic shocks, policy shifts, and technological advances in tax...