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Other | 2016
IMFG Graduate Fellowship Application 2017-18
IMFG
IMFG invites applications for two one-year graduate fellowships in municipal finance and governance for the 2017-2018 academic year. The fellowships will begin on September 1, 2017 and each offer $5,000 in financial support.
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Other | 2016
IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellowship Application 2017-18
IMFG
The Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), within the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, invites applications for a one-year IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance. Research should be pertinent to IMFG’s focus on the finance and governance issues faced by large cities and city-regions in Canada and around the world.
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IMFG Paper | 2016
Financing the Golden Age: Municipal Finance in Toronto, 1950 to 1975
Richard White
Toronto is known for having been a prosperous and successful city in the decades after the Second World War, and the postwar period has come to be seen as something of a Golden Age for the city. What role did Toronto’s postwar municipal finances play in making the city the success that it was?
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Presentation | 2016
Governance and Finance of Metropolitan Areas
Enid Slack
This presentation was delivered to the Beijing Forum, Peking University, Beijing.
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Presentation | 2016
Financing the Golden Age: Municipal Finance in Toronto, 1950 to 1975
Richard White
In this presentation, historian Richard White presents on the history of Toronto’s revenues and expenditures, public debt, regional governance, intergovernmental finances, and more.
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Video | 2016
What We Do is What We Fund: The 5th Annual City Manager's Address
Peter Wallace
In this video, Toronto City Manager Peter Wallace delivers his annual address to IMFG. Toronto is facing tough decisions in the coming years: does the City have the right toolkit to fund high quality public services and badly needed capital improvements? Do we have a solid foundation on which to position our city-building objectives?
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Presentation | 2016
IMFG Toronto City Manager's Address 2016
Peter Wallace
Toronto is facing tough decisions in the coming years: does the City have the right toolkit to fund high quality public services and badly needed capital improvements? Do we have a solid foundation on which to position our city-building objectives?
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Forum Paper | 2016
Participatory Budgeting: The Practice and the Potential
Abigail Friendly
Participatory budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. Several Canadian cities are experimenting with participatory budgeting. This Forum paper describes participatory budgeting efforts in Toronto and elsewhere.
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