Research Catalog

Title

Financing cities : fiscal responsibility and urban infrastructure in Brazil, China, India, Poland and South Africa / editors, George E. Peterson, Patricia Clarke Annez.

Publication

Washington, DC : World Bank ; Los Angeles : Sage Publications, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Peterson, George E.
• Annez, Patricia Clarke.

Description

352 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Fiscal policy > Case studies
• Finance, Public > Case studies
• Infrastructure (Economics) > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Fiscal responsibility legislation and fiscal adjustment : the case of Brazilian local governments / Luiz de Mello -- 2. China : fiscal framework and urban infrastructure finance / Su Ming and Zhao Quanhou -- 3. Overview of urban infrastructure finance in India / Subhash Chandra Garg -- 4. Infrastructure development in Poland : the issues at stake / Krzysztof Ners -- 5. Fiscal decentralization and the financing of urban infrastructure in South Africa / Philip van Ryneveld -- 6. Urban infrastructure investment and financing in Shanghai / Gao Guo Fu -- 7. Mobilizing financing for urban sanitation infrastructure in Brazil / Aser Cortines and Sandra Bondarovsky -- 8. Tamil Nadu urban development fund : public-private partnership in an infrastructure finance intermediary / L. Krishnan -- 9. INCA : a South African private-sector intermediary / Johan Kruger and George E. Peterson -- 10. Land leasing and land sale as an infrastructure financing option / George E. Peterson -- 11. Urban infrastructure finance from private operators : what have we learned from recent experience? / Patricia Clarke Annez.

ISBN

• 9780761935643 (hard back)
• 0761935649 (hard back)

LCCN

2007001254

OCLC

• ocm79860163
• SCSB-9242491

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries