Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Governing and Financing Metropolitan Areas in the Developing World -- Chapter 2: Metropolitan Cities -- Chapter 3: Metropolitan Cities in the National Fiscal and Institutional Structure -- Chapter 4: The Decentralization of Governance in Metropolitan Areas -- Chapter 5: Institutions and Politics of Metropolitan Management -- Chapter 6: Metropolitan Public Finance An Overview -- Chapter 7: Property Taxes in Metropolitan Cities -- Chapter 8: Local Nonproperty Revenues
Chapter 9: Grant Financing of Metropolitan Areas A Review of Principles and Worldwide PracticesChapter 10: Metropolitan Public Finances The Case of Mumbai -- Chapter 11: Paying for Urbanization in China Challenges of Municipal Finance in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 12: Metropolitan Governance and Finance in São Paulo -- Chapter 13: Metropolitan Infrastructure and Capital Finance -- Chapter 14: Slum Upgrading -- Chapter 15: External Assistance for UrbanFinance DevelopmentNeeds, Strategies, and Implementation -- Contributors -- Index