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  Property tax reform for local government revenue mobilisation in sub-Saharan Africa

  Adam Smith Institute, 2019

  To ensure sustainability and accountability of financing the Sustainable Development Goals and challenging infrastructure needs, developing country governments and development partners are looking at a range of measures to enhance domestic revenue mobilisation. One of the measures that is often cited, especially as a source of local government own revenue is property taxation.
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  Land and property tax for municipal finance

  International Growth Centre, 2018

  As cities grow, the wealth they create becomes capitalised in the rising land values of the city. Parts of peri-urban land in Kigali have increased in value over 1000-fold in the last 10 years. The question for policy then, is who captures this gain? The default option is that it gets captured by a few lucky individuals.
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  Land and property taxes: Exploiting untapped municipal revenues

  International Growth Centre, 2018

  This brief outlines the importance of annual land and property tax as a source of municipal finance and explores trade-offs that policymakers face in implementing reform. It also identifies examples of best practice for reform from cities across the developing world.
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  Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on revenue collection by Kenyan counties

  Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, 2014

  For sustainable growth and poverty reduction to take place in African countries specifically in Kenya and more so in Kenyan counties, it is essential that a coherent, dynamic and domestically driven capital accumulation, intermediation and Computerization process take root .
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  The role of Information Communication Technology to enhance property tax revenue in Africa: A tale of four cities in three ountries

  International Centre for Tax and Development, 2018

  Information communication technology (ICT) is an important tool to support local governments in their efforts to more efficiently administer property taxes and other ownsource revenues. Increasingly, developing countries, including those in Africa, are managing large volumes of data on taxable properties and taxpayers within the ICT environment.
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  Towards transformative climate justice: Key challenges and future directions for research

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020

  From forest fires in Australia and California to record floods in Jakarta and the UK, it is clear that no area of the world is immune from the effects of climate change. Many countries and cities have woken up to this fact and have declared climate emergencies.
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  Adapting agricultural water use to climate change in a post-Soviet context: Challenges and opportunities in Southeast Kazakhstan

  Springerlink, 2017

  The convergence of climate change and post-Soviet socio-economic and institutional transformations has been underexplored so far, as have the consequences of such convergence on crop agriculture in Central Asia.
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  Peri-urban agriculture as quiet sustainability: Challenging the urban development discourse in Sogamoso, Colombia

  Elsevier, 2020

  This article advances academic and policy debates on peri-urban agriculture (PUA) by examining the phenomenon in the city of Sogamoso, Colombia.
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  State infrastructural power and social transfers: The local politics of distribution and delivering ‘progress’ in Ethiopia

  Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2020

  This paper examines the politics of implementing the PSNP in Ethiopia. The PSNP is a targeted food and cash-for-work programme that places a strong emphasis on its ‘productive’ contribution through public works, a livelihoods component and the aim of mass ‘graduation’ from support.
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  Resilience in the rural Andes: Critical dynamics, constraints and emerging opportunities

  Springerlink, 2016

  The Andes present an ideal learning space to draw lessons on existing and emerging resilience challenges and opportunities. Andean people and societies have co-evolved with the unique high-mountain contexts in which they live, sometimes in altitudes of more than 3800 m.

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