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1. China’s Local Public Finance in Transition

   Books
   November 2010
   Edited by Joyce Yanyun Man and Yu-Hung Hong

   China's economy has developed rapidly since the economic reforms in 1978, but public finance reforms have proceeded more slowly. This book looks at three major policy options addressing the...

2. Inclusionary Housing in International Perspective

   Affordable Housing, Social Inclusion, and Land Value Recapture
   Books
   July 2010
   Edited by Nico Calavita and Alan Mallach

   “Countries around the world are looking for innovative ways to deal with growing problems of housing need and social exclusion. With its international perspective on inclusionary housing, this...

3. Municipal Revenues and Land Policies

   Books
   May 2010
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   Based on the proceedings of Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s fourth annual cross-disciplinary land policy conference, this volume collects scholarly work by a wide range of experts in land...

4. The Community Land Trust Reader

   Books
   May 2010
   Edited by John Emmeus Davis

   “The immensely damaging U.S. housing bubble, which was built on speculation, burst suddenly, with disastrous results not just for our national economy, but for individual homeowners and renters...

5. Perspectivas urbanas

   Temas críticos en políticas de suelo en América Latina
   Books
   May 2010
   Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Laura Mullahy

   This updated edition of Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo en America Latina (Urban Perspectives: Critical Land Policy Themes in Latin America), published in...

6. The Property Tax and Local Autonomy

   Books
   March 2010
   Edited by Michael E. Bell, David Brunori and Joan Youngman

   Some of the nation’s leading scholars of government and public finance provide their views on the consequences of a declining property tax base. They show local government officials and others...

7. Conservation Capital in the Americas

   Exemplary Conservation Finance Initiatives
   Books
   January 2010
   Edited by James N. Levitt

   Conservation finance innovations are central to protecting ecosystems. Through case studies, this book shows environmentalists and policy makers how to find the financial, human, social, and natural...

8. Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on the Property Tax

   Books
   January 2010
   Edited by Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Joan Youngman

   This book reviews the role of the property tax, addresses the reasons behind its poor performance in practice, and critiques the conventional wisdom in academic literature on the subject. It also...

9. Panorama del impuesto predial en América Latina

   Working Papers
   December 2010
   Claudia M. De Cesare

   Este artículo presenta los resultados principales de una encuesta que se está efectuando en América Latina sobre el impuesto predial, de acuerdo a los datos tomados hasta septiembre de 2008. Los...

10. The Effect of Land Value Ratio on Property Tax Protests and the Effects of Protests on Assessment Uniformity

    Working Papers
    December 2010
    Elizabeth Plummer

    This study examines the association of a property’s land value ratio with the probability and outcome of an owner protesting the property’s assessed value, and the resulting effects of...