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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. 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...

5. 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)....

6. Local Nonproperty Revenues

   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

   In this paper, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez focuses on the current theory and practice of non-property tax assignments to local urban governments in developing and developed countries. Although the...

7. Implementing Value Capture in Latin America

   Policies and Tools for Urban Development
   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Junho 2013
   Martim O. Smolka

   This report provides a review of land value capture's antecedents in Latin America and its longstanding presence in the urban planning agenda. It also examines a variety of land value capture...

8. Melhorar o Desempenho do Imposto sobre a Propriedade Imobiliária na América Latina

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Janeiro 2013
   Claudia M. De Cesare

   This report, Melhorar o Desempenho do Imposto sobre a Propriedade Imobiliária na América Latina (Improving the Performance of the Property Tax in Latin America), presents a...

9. Regenerating America’s Legacy Cities

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Maio 2013
   Alan Mallach and Lavea Brachman

   This report explores the challenges of regenerating America's legacy cities and suggests ways to overcome obstacles such as job and population loss. Community and economic developers will learn...

10. Metropolitan Public Finances

    The Case of Mumbai
    Artigos de Conferências
    Abril 2013
    Abhay Pethe

    In an attempt to understand public finance in metropolitan regions, this paper by Abhay Pethe presents an analysis of the issues faced by one of the most important urban agglomerations in India: the...