Due to recent decentralization reforms, municipalities now have important responsibilities in the sustainable urban development of Mozambique. This paper assesses the efficiency of World Bank funded municipal performance grants and technical assistance provided to municipalities, to enable...

Many developing countries have struggled with realizing sufficient revenues from property tax. However, as developing countries experience economic growth, they are also seeing property values rising, providing a bigger tax base from which to realize revenues. Technology has made tax...

This paper estimates a stochastic production frontier, to investigate whether municipalities covered by oil royalties in the last decade have reduced their tax effort in Brazil. The issue is relevant to the prospect of a substantial increase in these revenues and the new rules for distribution...