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New Book "Property Tax in Asia" Provides the First Comprehensive Analysis of the Property Tax Across the World’s Largest Continent
Revista Land LinesSetembro 2022By Will Jason, September 7, 2022The property tax has great potential as a source of local government revenue in Asia, but its implementation has been uneven. The Lincoln Institute’s new book Property Tax in Asia: Policy and Practice provides the first comprehensive analysis of how this
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President’s Message: How to Fend Off Land Speculation
Revista Land LinesJulho 2022By George W. McCarthy, July 14, 2022As climate change accelerates, land speculation is also on the rise. Lincoln Institute President George W. McCarthy says one fiscal remedy, successfully used in Taiwan and other places to prevent astronomical windfalls from lining private-sector pockets,
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Land Lines, January 2001
Revista Land LinesJaneiro 2001Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue explores the increasingly common and successful phenomenon of urban farming, and the need for more of it, in the U.S.; participatory budgeting and power politics in Brazil’s Porto...
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Message from the President
Strengthening Municipal Fiscal HealthRevista Land LinesAbril 2015When one looks at fiscally distressed cities, it is easy to conclude that insolvency is simply a product of ineffective management, a lack of financial discipline, or the incompetence or corruption...
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Land Prices, Land Markets, and the Broader Economy
Revista Land LinesMarço 1998Stephen K. MayoThe interactions between land and property markets and the broader economy of cities and nations are central to the Lincoln Institute's concerns. Two key objectives of our work in this area are (1)...
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Land Policy Issues in Latin America
Revista Land LinesSetembro 2000While it is known as a region of great diversity, Latin America is also characterized by common legacies that directly or indirectly affect land issues. These include a heritage of patrimonialism...
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Report from the President
Detecting and Preventing House Price BubblesRevista Land LinesOutubro 2013Gregory K. IngramThe United States is emerging from a great recession whose major hallmark has been the collapse of national housing prices, which grew by 59 percent from 2000 to 2006 and then fell 41 percent by 2011...
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Full Disclosure
Unexpected Improvements in Property Tax Administration and UniformityRevista Land LinesAbril 2003Gary C. CorniaProposition 13, adopted by a referendum in California in 1978, was the most notable in a series of relatively recent actions to limit the property tax in the United States, and many experts view it...
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Faculty Profile
Carlos Morales-SchechingerRevista Land LinesJaneiro 2013Carlos Morales-Schechinger joined IHS, the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 2008. This international institute attracts...