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Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries by Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, Deborah L. Wetzel, (Editors) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in cities. Catchphrases such as “metropolitan areas are the engines that pull the national economy” turn out to be fairly accurate. But the same advantages of metropolitan areas that draw investment also draw migrants who need jobs and housing, lead to demands for better infrastructure and social services, and result in increased congestion, environmental harm, and social problems. The challenges for metropolitan public finance are to capture a share of the economic growth to adequately finance new and growing expenditures and to organize governance so that services can be delivered in a cost-effective way, giving the local population a voice in fiscal decision making. At the same time, care must be taken to avoid overregulation and overtaxation, which will hamper the now quite mobile economic engine of private investment and entrepreneurial initiative. Metropolitan planning has become a reality in most large urban areas, even though the planning agencies are often ineffective in moving things forward and in linking their plans with the fiscal and financial realities of metropolitan government.

Who reads Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries?

Author

Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, Deborah L. Wetzel, (Editors)

Publisher

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558442832

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Finance, Medical, Military