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More than a decade since the amalgamations, two recent IMFG Papers examine the impact these reforms have had on the finances and service delivery in the country’s two biggest cities. This Perspectives paper highlights the key themes and arguments from the two papers.
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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 February 15, 2014.
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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 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 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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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 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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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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