Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries

Download or read book Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries written by Roy W. Bahl and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This book identifies the most important issues in metropolitan governance and finance in developing countries, describes the practice, explores the gap between practice and what theory suggests should be done, and lays out the reform paths that might be considered. Part of the solution will rest in rethinking expenditure assignments and instruments of finance. The "right" approach also will depend on the flexibility of political leaders to relinquish some control in order to find a better solution to the metropolitan finance problem.