This volume addresses the issues of financing urban growth of the African continent -- which has the highest urban growth rate on the planet -- in the next decades. Considerable investment will be needed to sustain this level of growth and to clear up accumulated backlogs. At the same time,...

Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- A: Aggregate Trends in Public Finances -- B: Key Public Finance Initiatives of the Third Plenum -- C: ADB's Suggestions on Local Government Financing -- D: ADB's Suggestions on Budget Improvements -- E: ADB's Suggestions on Tax Reform -- F:...

In fiscal year 1981-82, state and local government spending actually exceeded federal nondefense spending. However, past research in public finance has focused on federal spending and policies and paid little attention to the economic problems of state and local governments. Studies in State and...

A Brookings Institution Press and American Enterprise Institute publication Federal policies have made great progress protecting the environment. But the policies sometimes have imposed inordinate costs on local governments. Managing Green Mandates describes how various federal environmental...

Cover -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- The Importance of Municipal Finance -- Chapter 1: Municipal Revenue Options in a Time of Financial Crisis -- Chapter 2: Financing Cities -- Intergovernmental Transfers and Municipal Fiscal Structures -- Chapter 3: Intergovernmental Transfers to Local...

Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1. How political institutions, history and experience affect government budgeting processes and ways of achieving ‘value for money’ -- 2. Government budgeting and the quest for value-for-money outcomes in...