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Financing cities in India: municipal reforms, fiscal accountability and urban infrastructure

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd 2016Description: 306 pISBN:
  • 9789351508755
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 336.01454 M6F4
Summary: How is management of municipal finances related to economic growth and productive employment in urban India? This book identifies Indian municipalities as among the weakest globally in terms of access to resources, revenue-raising capacity and fiscal autonomy. Advocating reforms in these sectors, it discusses the lack of clarity, consistency, adequacy and predictability in municipal taxation, user charging, inter-governmental transfers and development financing as key factors plaguing city finances. Topical and up-to-date, the book brings out the need to align particular types of revenues to particular categories of expenditure so that services can be delivered in a responsive, transparent and accountable manner. (http://www.sagepub.in/books/Book251614?prodTypes=any&imprint=%22SAGE%20India%22&sortBy=defaultPubDate%20desc&fs=1)
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Contents:

Preface
Overview
India's Urban Fiscal Problem
A Portfolio of Municipal Taxes
Taxation of Urban Land Value
Reforming the Property Tax
User Charges, Benefit Charges and Fees
Intergovernmental Transfers to Municipalities
Development Financing Instruments
Value Creation, Capture and Recycling
Conclusion: An Agenda for Reforms
Bibliography
Index



How is management of municipal finances related to economic growth and productive employment in urban India?

This book identifies Indian municipalities as among the weakest globally in terms of access to resources, revenue-raising capacity and fiscal autonomy. Advocating reforms in these sectors, it discusses the lack of clarity, consistency, adequacy and predictability in municipal taxation, user charging, inter-governmental transfers and development financing as key factors plaguing city finances.

Topical and up-to-date, the book brings out the need to align particular types of revenues to particular categories of expenditure so that services can be delivered in a responsive, transparent and accountable manner.

(http://www.sagepub.in/books/Book251614?prodTypes=any&imprint=%22SAGE%20India%22&sortBy=defaultPubDate%20desc&fs=1)

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