Is Your City Healthy? Measuring Urban Fiscal Health

In an era when all large cities are struggling to maintain balanced budgets and pay for increased services and infrastructure, Is Your City Healthy? is a timely publication that explores the elements of fiscal health, how we measure it, and why it is important. In the book, eight experts in the field look at a range of fiscal health measures in Canada, the United States, and some OECD countries and ask if they are always or necessarily a signal of municipal health. Editors Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack and chapter author Kyle Hanniman discussed some of the key themes of the book, followed by a reception and signing.

Speakers:

• Enid Slack, Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, and Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto.
• Richard M. Bird, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Rotman School of Management, and Adjunct Professor & Senior Fellow of the Institute on Municipal Governance and Finance, University of Toronto.
• Kyle Hanniman, Policy Associate at the Mowat Centre, Toronto, former post-doctoral fellow at the IMFG, and Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies, Queens University (beginning in July 2015).

Where to purchase this publication:

Is Your City Healthy? Measuring Urban Fiscal Health is published in association with the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC). Copies can be purchased at the University of Toronto bookstore, located at 214 College Street in Toronto, or online through IPAC at:  www.ipac.ca/publications.