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"Explores urban issues closely linked to land policy: growing and changing populations, expanding cities, changing climates, funding municipalities, housing affordability and access, changing housing markets, social impacts, and effects of reform, in post-recession U.S. cities and in rapidly-developing Chinese cities. Product of the 9th Annual Land Policy Conference in 2014, hosted by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy"--

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 Governments -- Chapter 4: Trends in Local Government Revenues: The Old, the New, and the Future -- Chapter 5: Creative Designs of the Patchwork Quilt of Municipal Finance -- Broad-Based Local Taxes and Development Impact Fees -- Chapter 6: The Contribution of Local Sales and Income Taxes to Fiscal Autonomy -- Chapter 7: The Effects of Development Impact Fees on Local Fiscal Conditions -- Chapter 8: A New Financial Instrument of Value Capture in São Paulo -- Financing Submunicipal Services -- Chapter 9: Governance Structures and Financial Authority in Submunicipal Districts: Implications for Fiscal Performance -- Chapter 10: Does a Rising Tide Compensate for the Secession of the Successful? -- Chapter 11: Does TIF Make It More Difficult to Manage Municipal Budgets? -- Chapter 12: Homeowners Associations and Their Impact on the Local Public Budget -- Capital Financing of Infrastructure -- Chapter 13: Complex Debt for Financing Infrastructure -- Chapter 14: Prospects for Private Infrastructure in the United States: The Case of Toll Roads -- Comparisons of the Property Tax with Other Revenue Instruments -- Chapter 15: An Analysis of Alternative Revenue Sources for Local Governments -- Chapter 16: The Best of Times or the Worst of Times? How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Index -- ABOUT THE LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Overview -- Part 1: Foundations of Partnerships and Their Evaluation -- 1. Partnership as a Means to Improve Economic Performance -- 2. Theoretical Foundations of Partnership -- 3. Foundations of Partnerships: A Practitioner's Perspective -- 4. Evaluating Partnerships -- 5. Evaluation of, for, and through Partnerships -- 6. The Logic of Partnership -- Part 2: Partnerships in Practice -- 7. Partnership, Mutual Accountability, and Evaluation -- Different Perspectives and Types of Development Partnership -- 8. Global Public Policy Partnerships -- 9. Regional Partnerships in the European Union -- 10. Country-Focused Partnerships—Lessons from Experience -- 11. Country and Donor Partnerships -- 12. Partnerships for Knowledge Creation -- Critical Issues -- 13. Partnerships: The Critical Role of the State -- 14. Challenges for Governance in Partnerships for Delivering Services -- Case Studies -- 15. Partnership for Poverty Reduction: ActionAid Ethiopia -- 16. Research Partnerships and Their Evaluation -- 17. Tactical Partnerships—A Philippine Case Study -- 18. Local Governments and Community-Based Partnerships -- 19. Partnerships for Integrated Community Development in Southern Africa -- 20. Partnerships for Community Development—World Vision -- 21. Partnerships between International Organizations and Private Foundations -- 22. Partnerships among Business, Government, and NGOs: Lessons from the South African National Business Initiative -- Index