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Intro -- Foreword -- Author's Note -- Prologue: My Guardian Angel -- Chapter One First Solo -- Chapter Two 'The Towers' - RAF College Cranwell -- Chapter Three Spreading My Wings - No 5 AFTS -- Chapter Four Lord of the Manor - No 1 AEF -- Chapter Five El Adem with Grass - Co-Pilot 214 Squadron -- Chapter Six The Sport of Kings - Captain 214 Squadron -- Chapter Seven California Dream - 904th AREFS -- Chapter Eight Bird Strike! - No 2 FTS -- Chapter Nine "Is There a Phoenix in the House?" Pilot Leader - 57 Squadron -- Chapter Ten "Superfuse" - The Black Buck Legacy Flight Commander - 55 Squadron -- Chapter Eleven Learn to Test - Test to Learn - ETPS -- Chapter Twelve Probing the Limits - B Squadron A& -- AEE -- Chapter Thirteen Breaking Contact -- Aircraft Types Flown -- Logbook Periodic Summary -- and Assessment of Ability -- Glossary -- Index.

Urban infrastructure investment needs in the developing world are immense, particularly when the additional costs associated with lower carbon, more climate-resilient options are considered. These cannot possibly be financed from fiscal sources and ODA flows alone; private financing will need to be accessed. Focusing on the ability of city governments and subnational urban utilities to mobilize private finance, this paper makes two core arguments. First, private investment in municipal infrastructure requires robust institutional, fiscal and regulatory systems that are often absent in developing countries. Establishing such systems often requires policy and institutional reform, much of which lies beyond the competence and control of city governments themselves. Second, while the marginal investment needs related to climate mitigation and adaptation complicate and aggravate the picture, they do not alter the fundamental requirements of private investors. Put simply, municipalities and utilities will need to satisfy the requirements of regular private finance before they can attract green private finance. This paper looks across the main avenues for city governments to mobilize private finance – municipal borrowing, public–private partnerships, and land value capture instruments – and identifies four broad factors that determine the potential size and scope of city leveraging activity. It then offers a new framework to understand where the most pressing constraints to private investment readiness lie and proposes priority measures that local and national governments, together with development partners and other stakeholders, can take to address them.

Versuch, auf der Basis zahlreicher Dokumentarquellen und Befragungen den Stand der schwarzen Kommunalverwaltungen in Südafrika zu bewerten: Geschichte und Entwicklung der schwarzen Lokalbehörden; politische, administrative und finanzielle Aspekte ihrer Arbeit; Beziehungen zur Zentral- und Provinzregierung, zu para-staatlichen und privaten Organisationen innerhalb ihres Einflußbereichs. Abschätzung der Bedeutung, die diese schwarzen Verwaltungen und außerparlamentarischen Township-Organisationen im anstehendenden Verhandlungsprozeß über die zukünftige politische und verfassungsmäßige Entwicklung Südafrikas einnehmen könnten. (DÜI-Hlb)

The Property Tax Diagnostic Manual (hereafter "Manual") provides guidance on how to analyzeand assess immovable property tax systems, diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of such systems, and develop a property tax intervention strategy where needed. Its higher objective is to support increasingly fair and stable tax systems in low- and middle-income countries, with significant potential for sustainable improvements in achieving key revenue, equity, and efficiency objectives. This Manual focuses specifically on the recurrent, immovable property tax. It does not address other land-based property taxes such as property transfer taxes, capital gains taxes, and one event property revenues (land sales, leases) or personal taxes on movable property such as boats, airplanes, and motor vehicles. Although these other property taxes are not directly addressed, successful reforms for the recurrent, immovable property tax must take intoaccount the interactions that exist between the immovable property tax and these other formsof property taxation. The Manual is primarily designed to assist practitioners from governments, development partners, and civil society practitioners to identify, analyze, and develop potential property tax reforms. The Manual lays out an analytical approach that can help identify property tax performance potential, challenges and opportunities, evaluate remedial property tax policyand administrative reform measures, and design a strategic action plan to implement those recommended interventions. A conceptual framework for the property tax, its policy and administration components, and reform strategy options are provided along with numerous examples of international experience.