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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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Book | 2018
Fiscal Decentralization and Local Finance in Developing Countries
Richard M. Bird and Roy Bahl
As experience with decentralization has accumulated, perceptions of both the problems that often accompany decentralization and the best ways to deal with
them have evolved. This book draws on experiences in developing countries to bridge the gap between the conventional textbook treatment of fiscal decentralization and the actual practice of subnational government finance.
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Video | 2018
Legacies of the Megacity: Toronto’s Amalgamation 20 Years Later
Shirley Hoy, John Matheson, Alexandra Flynn, Zack Taylor, and Enid Slack
This video features a panel discussion held on March 27, 2018, on the challenges and opportunities of the 1998 Toronto Amalgamation. Speakers include Shirley Hoy (former City Manager, City of Toronto), John Matheson (former Chief of Staff to Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing), Alexandra Flynn (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto), Zack Taylor (Assistant Professor, Western University), and Enid Slack (event moderator, Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance).
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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
Legacies of the Megacity: Toronto’s Amalgamation 20 Years Later
Zack Taylor
Zack Taylor, Assistant Professor, Western University, presented as part of the event Legacies of the Megacity: Toronto’s Amalgamation 20 Years Later on March 27, 2018.
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