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    Lessons for open data for development programmes

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    Open data programmes – that support the access, distribution, and effective use of data by everyone for free – are a relatively new area in global development.
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    Determinants of property rate default: Evidence from the Ashanti Region, Ghana

    University of Technology Sydney Centre for Local Government, 2015
    This study seeks to assess the determinants of property rates default in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to study 540 respondents from one municipal and five district assemblies within the region. A structured questionnaire collected data from the sampled respondents.
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    University of Technology Sydney Centre for Local Government

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    University of Technology Sydney Centre for Local Government

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    Mapping property taxes in Africa

    Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2009
    Africa’s enormous challenges and equally great potential have led to intense international debate over how best to assist its citizens. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2009), the continent contains 33 of the 49 least developed countries in the world.
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    Thick claims and thin rights: Taxation and the construction of analogue property rights in Lagos

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2020
    The importance of tenure security for development and wellbeing is often reduced to questions about how titles can guarantee rights, overlooking the contested and layered nature of property rights themselves.
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    Taxing property owners in Dakar

    International Growth Centre, 2019
    Property taxes in the region of Dakar offer a huge potential for local revenue mobilisation, which remains mostly untapped • Baseline results show that only an estimated 20% of plots are on the tax roll (administrative data), 12% of owners paid the property tax in 2018, and tax payments do not exceed 20% of theoretical tax revenues (survey data) • The authors partnered with the national tax adm
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    Taxer les propriétaires fonciers à Dakar

    International Growth Centre, 2019
    Les impôts fonciers dans la région de Dakar offrent un potentiel énorme pour la mobilisation des revenus locaux, qui reste en grande partie inexploité.
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    The political economy of property tax reform

    Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2014
    Property taxes are generally considered by economists to be good taxes, and many countries are being advised to increase and improve their property taxes. In practice, however, property tax reforms have often proved to be difficult to carry out successfully.
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    Urban land value capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad: Differing interpretations, equity impacts, and enabling conditions

    Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2020
    This paper presents analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of urban land value capture instruments based on three case studies from the global south. These include the Lideta redevelopment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Outer Ring Road in Hyderabad, India; and Água Espraiada Urban Operation in São Paulo, Brazil.

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