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Informalidad, pobreza urbana y precios de la tierra
January 2003, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 2 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. El precio excesivamente alto de la tierra urbanizada en América Latina es una de varias explicaciones del grado y la persistencia de los mercados informales de tierra. Contrario […]
Informal Settlements, Land Markets, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
January 2003, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 2 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. El precio excesivamente alto de la tierra urbanizada en América Latina es una de varias explicaciones del grado y la persistencia de los mercados informales de tierra. Contrario […]
Informal Settlements, Land Markets, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
Informality, Urban Poverty and Land Market Prices
January 2003, English
The excessively high price of serviced land in Latin America is one of several explanations for the extent and persistence of informal land markets. Contrary to popular beliefs, informality is expensive and therefore is not the best or even an advantageous alternative to combating poverty, but it is usually the only one available to the […]
Informal Settlements, Land Markets, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
January 2003, English
The excessively high price of serviced land in Latin America is one of several explanations for the extent and persistence of informal land markets. Contrary to popular beliefs, informality is expensive and therefore is not the best or even an advantageous alternative to combating poverty, but it is usually the only one available to the […]
Informal Settlements, Land Markets, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
Planners and Economists Debate Land Market Policy
Paul Cheshire, Rosalind Greenstein, and Stephen C. Sheppard
January 2003, English
The land market allocates land and access to urban amenities, and it does so with impressive efficiency. Yet, economists and planners continue to debate the extent to which the market fails to achieve broader social goals, how far regulation can offset for that failure, and even whether regulation results in land market outcomes being even […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Land Markets, Urbanization
January 2003, English
The land market allocates land and access to urban amenities, and it does so with impressive efficiency. Yet, economists and planners continue to debate the extent to which the market fails to achieve broader social goals, how far regulation can offset for that failure, and even whether regulation results in land market outcomes being even […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Land Markets, Urbanization
Prospects for Land Value Taxation in Britain
Tony Vickers
January 2003, English
It is not surprising that proposals for land value taxation (LVT) should elicit strong reactions in public debate. Land, taxes and information are a combustible combination, but they are critical to our political system. Without land we cannot live; without taxes we cannot be governed; without information about land and taxes we are powerless to […]
Land Value Taxation, Local Government, Public Finance, Technology and Tools
January 2003, English
It is not surprising that proposals for land value taxation (LVT) should elicit strong reactions in public debate. Land, taxes and information are a combustible combination, but they are critical to our political system. Without land we cannot live; without taxes we cannot be governed; without information about land and taxes we are powerless to […]
Land Value Taxation, Local Government, Public Finance, Technology and Tools
Faculty Profile
William A. Fischel
January 2003, English
William Fischel is professor of economics and the Patricia F. and William B. Hale ’44 Professor in Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was a member of the Hanover zoning board for 10 years, and has long served on the teaching and research faculty of the Lincoln Institute. He has […]
Housing, Land Use and Zoning, Land Value Taxation, Property Tax
January 2003, English
William Fischel is professor of economics and the Patricia F. and William B. Hale ’44 Professor in Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was a member of the Hanover zoning board for 10 years, and has long served on the teaching and research faculty of the Lincoln Institute. He has […]
Housing, Land Use and Zoning, Land Value Taxation, Property Tax
Progress and Poverty
Henry George
January 2003, English
Book
Land Value Taxation, Poverty and Inequality
January 2003, English
Book
Land Value Taxation, Poverty and Inequality
Property Taxation within the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Current Status and Future Prospects of Land Value Taxation--Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland
January 2003, English
Working Papers
January 2003, English
Working Papers
Effects of Property Tax Abatements on Tax Rates and Capital Costs
The Case of Monroe County, Indiana
C. Kurt Zorn, John L. Mikesell, and Esteban Dalehite
January 2003, English
Working Papers
Property Tax
January 2003, English
Working Papers
Property Tax
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