Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Click on the following links to read case studies on urban finance from different countries:
Code of Best Practices in Municipal Finance Management, The Institute for Urban Economics
This report discusses the importance of improving the quality of projections about revenue sources and spending needs of municipal budgets in the medium term, to create a basis for coordinating capital investment and borrowing programs of municipalities, and to increase the investment attractiveness of municipalities.
Financial Institutions Reform and Expansion -- Debt (FIRE-D) Managing India's Cities Success Story
The future of India is inescapably urban. Cities have emerged as the prime engines of economic growth and generators of national wealth. In fifteen years, more than half the country's one billion people will live in cities. A third of them will be slum dwellers and squatters.
Sub-national Own-Source Revenue: Getting Policy and Administration Right, by Robert R. Talie
Once countries decide to decentralize--whether gradually, as in Thailand and Vietnam, or with an initial dramatic change, as in the Philippines and Indonesia--they must get the fiscal design right.
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