IMFG Forum Paper: Participatory Budgeting: The Practice and the Potential
Complex urban challenges require new thinking both locally and nationally: New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance examines the involvement of citizens in budgeting decisions at the […]
Book Review of Is Your City Healthy in Public Finance and Management
“[A]n interesting read for academics, politicians and professionals in the field of municipal finance,” states Peter B. Boorsma in his review of Is Your City Healthy? Measuring Urban Fiscal Health in Public Finance and […]
Enid Slack and Harry Kitchen cited in Maytree Opinion
In a recent editorial entitled The housing and transit budget shell game, Alan Broadbent cites research presented by Enid Slack and Harry Kitchen to support his argument that “Canada’s large cities […]
Murtaza Haider quoted in TVO’s The Next Ontario
John Michael McGrath mentioned IMFG’s paper on tax increment financing for transit infrastructure, authored by Murtaza Haider and Liam Donaldson, in a The Next Ontario post called Can a private […]
Paper Spotlight: Fostering Citizen Trust in Municipal Government
Geothink featured IMFG Perspectives A Recipe for Fiscal Trust (No. 13), by Pamela Robinson and Dina Graser in its Spotlight, entitled Fostering Citizen Trust in Municipal Government.
Did the Land Transfer Tax Impact Housing Sales in Toronto?
New paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance finds no evidence that Toronto’s Land Transfer Tax alone reduced housing sales in the GTA.