Search Results for: Governance
Presentation | 2018
Are You Serious? The Governance of Metropolitan Sydney
Graham Sansom
Sydney is Australia’s largest metropolis with 5 million people and faces serious challenges of infrastructure and service provision, environmental management, and spatial inequality. Its metropolitan governance lacks focus.
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IMFG Paper | 2018
Returning to the Golden Rule of Balanced Budgets
Bernard Dafflon
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, both politicians and public finance economists focused their attention on ways to control public budget deficits and debt. Around the world, detailed and precise regulations affected how governments could deal with public deficit and debt.
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Presentation | 2018
Does local government autonomy promote fiscal sustainability?
Matthew Walshe
What are the consequences of home rule authority on fiscal sustainability? What lessons does this hold for Canadian municipalities?
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IMFG Paper | 2018
The Public Finance Challenges of Fracking for Local Governments in the United States
Austin Zwick
Fracking has revolutionized international oil and gas markets practically overnight, but its impact on local public finance and governance have largely been overlooked. While operating under federal and state constraints, the key ongoing policy question is whether and to what extent local governments can – and should – have the power to manage the industry’s effects on their communities.
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Presentation | 2018
Conference on Smart Villages: Smart Villages- Financing Services and Infrastructure
Enid Slack
Enid Slack, IMFG Director, presented, “Smart Villages- Financing Services and Infrastructure” as part of The Fields Institute Conference on Smart Villages on April 4, 2018.
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Presentation | 2018
Promise and Peril in the Smart City: Who Are We Building Smart Cities For?
Zac Spicer
Zac Spicer, Visiting Researcher, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, presented "Who Are We Building Smart Cities For? Equity and Inclusion in Smart City Design" as part of the event Promise and Peril in the Smart City: Local Government in the Age of Digital Urbanism.
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Presentation | 2018
Promise and Peril in the Smart City: What Disruption Looks Like
Tracey Cook
Tracey Cook, Executive Director, Municipal Licensing and Standards, City of Toronto, presented "What Disruption Looks Like" as part of the event Promise and Peril in the Smart City: Local Government in the Age of Digital Urbanism.
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Presentation | 2018
Promise and Peril in the Smart City: New urban tech - Important and practical considerations
Pamela Robinson
Pamela Robinson, Associate Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson University, presented "New urban tech - Important and practical considerations" as part of the event Promise and Peril in the Smart City: Local Government in the Age of Digital Urbanism on January 25, 2018.
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