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1. Recuperação de Mais-Valias Fundiárias na América Latina

   Políticas e Instrumentos para o Desenvolvimento Urbano
   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Setembro 2014
   Martim O. Smolka

   Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...

2. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Maio 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

3. Implementación de la recuperación de plusvalías en América Latina

   Políticas e instrumentos para el desarrollo urbano
   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Fevereiro 2014
   Martim O. Smolka

   Urbanization in Latin America is associated with strong pressure for the supply of serviced land, resulting in significant changes in land values that are distributed unequally among landowners and...

4. The Future Role of the Property Tax in the Funding of K12 Education in the United States

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2014
   Andrew Reschovsky

   This paper reviews the role of the property tax in funding K–12 education. At present, local and state governments each contribute a national average of 44 percent of the funds spent on public...

5. Nontraditional Public School Funding Sources

   Trends, Issues, and Outlook
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2014
   Henry Coleman

   This paper by Henry A. Coleman examines a wide range of nontraditional revenue sources, including local-option personal income and general sales taxes, user charges and fees, gaming revenues, private...

6. Transport Costs of School Choice

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2014
   Kevin Krizek, Elizabeth Wilson, Ryan Wilson, and Julian Marshall

   In this paper, the authors examine the role that transport costs play in school choice. They note that the average per pupil cost for transportation among U.S. school districts was $570 in 2010 (...

7. Use-Value Assessment of Rural Land in the United States

   Livros
   Junho 2014
   John E. Anderson and Richard W. England

   This work explains and analyzes critical questions raised by the use-value assessment (UVA) policy for farmland preservation. It covers the origins, key features, impacts, and flaws of UVA programs...

8. Education, Land, and Location

   Livros
   Maio 2014
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Daphne A. Kenyon

   Because most children throughout the world attend elementary and secondary schools near their homes, where they live usually determines where they go to school. In the United States, the relationship...

9. Instrumentos notables de políticas de suelo en América Latina

   Livros
   Abril 2014
   Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda Furtado

   Based on work presented at the May 2013 Latin American Forum on Noteworthy Instruments of Urban Intervention, this book (which includes work written in Spanish and Portuguese) presents 21 case...

10. Land Lines, January 2014

    Revista Land Lines
    Janeiro 2014
    Edited by Maureen Clarke

    This issue explores the successes of three U.S. Intermountain West communities in remedying distressed land subdivisions; the distribution of residential wealth in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, and...