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1. 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...

2. Metropolitan Governance and Finance in São Paulo

   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Deborah L. Wetzel

   With a population of 11.2 million residents, São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere, and the world’s seventh largest city by population. The city is...

3. The Decentralization of Governance in Metropolitan Areas

   Artigos de Conferências
   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...

4. How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 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...

5. Metropolitan Public Finance

   An Overview
   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack

   This paper by Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack is based on their observation that not all big cities are very rich, but they are all, by definition, big, and most of them are also rich relative to...

6. Paying for Urbanization in China

   Challenges of Municipal Finance in the Twenty-First Century
   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Christine P. Wong

   China is urbanizing, and the pace is accelerating. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported a population of 1.34 billion at year end 2010, fully half of them living in cities (CSY 2011)....

7. The Past and Future of the Urban Property Tax

   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 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...

8. 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...

9. The Use of Eminent Domain in São Paulo, Bogotá, and Mexico City

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2009
   Antonio Azuela

   In this paper, Antonio Azuela examines the conditions under which eminent domain is used in São Paulo, Bogotá, and Mexico City. Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico all went through democratic transitions...

10. Slum Upgrading

    Artigos de Conferências
    Abril 2013
    Maria E. Freire

    In this paper, Maria E. Freire discusses the alternatives available to finance slum upgrading in metropolitan areas and large cities. It examines the size of the problem as described by the U.N....