Beneficial Property Taxation for Emerging Market Countries

Ehtisham Ahmad has been Visiting Professor at the LSE Grantham Research Institute, Pao Yu-Kong Professor at Zhejiang University and has held senior positions at the IMF. Giorgio Brosio is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Torino.

• 1. Property Taxation, Instruments, Models, Administration, and Potential Effects.- 2. Failure and Promise of Property Taxation in Senegal.- 3. Challenges of Property Taxation in Tanzania.- 4. Financing Sustainable Local Spending and Infrastructure in China.- 5. Mexico: Failure of the Traditional Property Tax and Proposed Beneficial Property Tax Alternative.- 6. Administration of Property Taxes.- 7. Toward a Beneficial Property Tax Agenda for Sustainable Growth.