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Presentation | 2015
Funding Options for Municipalities
Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by Enid Slack at the Municipal Finance Officers' Association Annual Conference on Sept. 24, 2015.
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IMFG Paper | 2015
A Good Crisis: Canadian Municipal Credit Conditions after the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy
Kyle Hanniman
Why did Canadian municipal credit conditions improved so dramatically after the 2008 recession compared to other subnational governments around the world?
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Video | 2015
Financing Local Governments in the 21st Century: Going Back to First Principles
Enid Slack
IMFG Director Enid Slack recorded a presentation for Local Government New South Wales, which was shown at the Finance Summit in Sydney, Australia on August 27, 2015. The presentation is on “Financing Local Governments in the 21st Century: Going Back to First Principles.”
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IMFG Paper | 2015
How to Reform the Property Tax: Lessons from Around the World
Enid Slack and Richard M. Bird
This paper discusses why property taxes are particularly challenging to reform and suggests several ways in which efforts to reform this tax may become more successful in the future.
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Presentation | 2015
National Guidelines for the Smart Cities in India
Bharat Punjabi
Presentation by IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Bharat Punjabi at the Global Cities Institute Thematic Round Table: A Dialogue on Smart Cities, at the University of Toronto, on June 29, 2015.
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Presentation | 2015
Metropolitan Water Governance in Toronto: Policy by Default or Design?
Bharat Punjabi
This presentation focuses on the policy processes involved in implementing the Clean Water Act (2006), and outlines the practical and policy challenges of setting up the Toronto and Region Source Protection Authority with the involvement of municipal and non-municipal stakeholders.
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Presentation | 2015
Financing Regional Public Transit in Ontario
Enid Slack and Richard M. Bird
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack at the 2015 State of the Federation Conference at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
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Presentation | 2015
Planning the City, Demarcating the Watershed
Bharat Punjabi
Presentation delivered by IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellow Bharat Punjabi at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, in Vancouver, on June 3, 2015.
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