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1. El escritorio del alcalde

   Fomentar la resiliencia ante el cambio climático en Sierra Leona
   Revista Land Lines
   Janeiro 2023
   Por Anthony Flint

   La alcaldesa Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr asumió su cargo en Freetown, Sierra Leona, en mayo de 2018, después de desempeñarse como jefa del Ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Freetown. La profesional de las...

2. Predicting Municipal Fiscal Distress

   Aspiration or Reality?
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2018
   Tracy Gordon

   Cities are where people come together to work, live, and thrive. Cities also face a host of fiscal challenges, many of which were laid bare in the Great Recession. Given these challenges,...

3. Fiscal Decentralization and Land Policies

   Livros
   Maio 2008
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   The study of fiscal decentralization has important policy implications for urban growth management, environmental conservation, and property taxation. First, fiscal decentralization gives local...

4. Metropolitan Cities in the National Fiscal and Institutional Structure

   Artigos de Conferências
   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...

5. Evaluating the Effect of Differences in Revenue Systems on the Fiscal Health of Large U.S. Cities

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2017
   Howard Chernick

   Sustainable fiscal health is crucial for cities. To do this, they must be able to generate flows of revenue over time sufficient to pay for needed services, even as the cost of those services grows....

6. Indicadores de Gestão Fiscal e de Qualidade do Gasto nos Municípios Brasileiros

   Impactos da Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal nas Prefeituras
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2017
   José Roberto Rodrigues Afonso, Kleber Pacheco de Castro, Marcos Hecksher, Alexandre Sobreira Cialdini, and Fabrício Marques Santos

   Com o intuito de tentar captar o comportamento incentivado pela LRF no âmbito dos governos locais, este trabalho visou construir e analisar indicadores de performance para observar a tend...

7. Measuring the Fiscal Health of Municipalities

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2017
   Bruce McDonald III

   One of the difficulties faced in the effective and efficient management of public organizations is the understanding of when the organization is experiencing financial distress. Administrators and...

8. Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Novembro 2022
   By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022

   Freetown, Sierra Leone, is one of seven cities around the world that have appointed chief heat officers as part of a global effort to invest in a climate-resilient future. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr...

9. Development Tax in France as a Tool for Land Value Capture and Social Equity

   Case Studies on Bordeaux and Strasbourg
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2021
   Sonia Guelton, Agnes Pouillaude, and David Rosen

   In a context of severe pressure on public budgets, aging urban infrastructure, and increasing pressures of urbanization, municipalities, and metropolitan regions on five continents are looking at...

10. Programmes, Practices, and Preconditions

    Learning from Cape Town’s Experience with One-Off Contributions from Developers
    Documentos de Trabalho
    Julho 2021
    Stephen Berrisford, Liza Rose Cirolia, and Elisabeth Makumbi

    There is increasing interest in the applicability of land-based financing instruments in subSaharan Africa. African cities are opportune sites to explore the potential of land-based financing....