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Presentation | 2014
Concepts of Decentralization and Local Governance
Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to Inter-Regional Dialogue on Local Governance and Gender in Decentralizing and Transitioning States in Tunis on February 14, 2014.
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Presentation | 2014
The Three I’s of Policy: Intentionality, Instruments, and Investment
Alan Broadbent
Presentation delivered by IMFG Board Chair Alan Broadbent to the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University on January 16, 2014.
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Presentation | 2013
Decentralization and Gender Equity
Slack, Enid
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Inter-Regional Dialogue on Local Governance and Gender in Decentralizing and Transitioning States in Tunis on December 18, 2013.
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IMFG Paper | 2013
Decentralization and Infrastructure in Developing Countries
Roy Bahl and Richard M. Bird
The paper first sets out the theory of expenditure assignment with respect to decentralizing infrastructure expenditure, and then considers how practice around the developing world appears to differ from what that theory appears to suggest.
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Presentation | 2013
Financing the Metropolis
Enid Slack
Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the International Symposium on Innovations and the Making of Metropolitan Identity, sponsored by the City of Paris, Sciences Po University, and LATTS on November 27, 2013.
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IMFG Paper | 2013
Public Finance in Montréal: In Search of Equity and Efficiency
Jean-Philippe Meloche and François Vaillancourt
Following the 2002 amalgamation, half Montréal’s pre-amalgamation suburbs de-merged in 2006, leading to the creation of a smaller megacity with 19 decentralized boroughs. This paper identifies factors that affect the capacity of Montréal’s boroughs to fulfil their responsibilities.
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Presentation | 2013
Eb Zeidler: Buildings Cities Life
Max Allen
A new two-volume, 1,635-page autobiography explores the life, architecture, and philosophy of Eberhard (Eb) Zeidler, from his early life and studies at the Bauhaus to the present. This event celebrated Eb’s remarkable impact on architectural history, and explore some of the contemporary trends that are influencing the design of buildings and cities into the future.
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Video | 2013
Buildings, Cities, Life: Eb Zeidler’s Autobiography in Architecture
Max Allen, John Sewell, Matthew Teitelbaum, and Eb Zeidler
This video features a panel presentation on the new two-volume autobiography of the life, architecture, and philosophy of Eberhard (Eb) Zeidler, from his early life and studies at the Bauhaus to the present—an exceptional career that established him as one of the world's most influential architects.
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