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IMFG Paper | 2011
Coping with Change: The Need to Restructure Urban Governance and Finance in India
M. Govinda Rao and Richard M. Bird
This paper identifies some key reforms needed to ensure more citizen participation and greater accountability in urban governance, and to augment and strengthen the capacity of Indian cities to deliver more adequate services and provide needed urban infrastructure.
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IMFG Paper | 2011
Revenue Diversification in Large U.S. Cities
Howard Chernick, Adam Langley, and Andrew Reschovsky
Using a panel of data on the financing of the United States’ largest central cities from 1997 to 2008, the empirical results of this paper provide strong support for the hypothesis that a more diversified revenue structure generates more revenues than one that relies primarily on the property tax.
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