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1. Leasing Public Land

   Policy Debates and International Experiences
   Livros
   Abril 2003
   Edited by Steven C. Bourassa and Yu-Hung Hong

   Leasing public land has been advocated as a viable land tenure option for former socialist countries and other transitional economies. However, the debate about land tenure has been influenced more...

2. Alternatives to Sprawl

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Dezembro 1995
   Dwight Young

   Sprawl is not a recent phenomenon. There is general agreement that it began in the construction boom of the post-World War II years and really came into its own with the initiation of the Interstate...

3. Local Service Provision in Selected OECD Countries

   Do Decentralized Operations Work Better?
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Ehtisham Ahmad, Giorgio Brosio, and Vito Tanzi

   The authors survey the related literature of decentralization experiences in selected OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation...

4. Political Structure and Exclusionary Zoning

   Are Small Suburbs the Big Problem?
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   William A. Fischel

   In this paper, William A. Fischel argues that metropolitan areas with more fragmented and decentralized government structures are more likely to have a lower elasticity of housing supply than those...

5. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Novembro 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...

6. Decentralization and Environmental Decision Making

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Shelby Gerking

   Shelby Gerking analyzes the effect of state tax rates on the disposal of chlorinated solvent wastes in the United States. He finds that changes in the disposal costs of these chemicals as a result of...

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

   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 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...

8. Land Value Taxation as a Method of Financing Municipal Expenditures in U.S. Cities

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2007
   Richard W. England

   To what extent could local governments employ land and property taxation to recoup a portion of these land values for financing local services and infrastructure? Richard W. England tackles this...

9. Mobilizing Land Value Increments to Provide Serviced Land for the Poor

   Revista Land Lines
   Julho 1999
   Martim O. Smolka and Alfonso Iracheta Cenecorta

   The lack of affordable serviced land for the urban poor is one of the most important issues on the Latin American land policy agenda.1 This shortage of serviced land and the subsequent illegal...

10. Land as a Strategic Factor for Urban Development in the State of Mexico

    Revista Land Lines
    Setembro 1997
    Fernando Rojas and Alfonso Iracheta

    Mexico is beginning to create an enabling environment to use land value increments for development purposes. Recent constitutional and legal reforms have authorized the clarification of land titling...