Examining Metropolitan Governance and Finance in Cairo and Manila

Client
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Faculty
Paul Smoke
Team
Dave Algoso, Jenna Magee, Carly Nasehi, Rahil Rangwala

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy pro­vides a nonpartisan forum for discussion of the use, regulation, and taxation of land and related issues. The Lincoln Institute engaged the Capstone team to develop case studies of Cairo and Manila in order to assess metropolitan finance and gover­nance practices in developing countries. The team's research framework focused on documenting institutional linkages, revenue sources, innovative financing mechanisms, and service delivery man­agement. The Capstone team used field interviews and secondary research to pro­duce two working papers illustrating how institutional and financial structures affect public financing and service provision in particular contexts. The two working papers are bridged by a third document synthesizing the cases and placing them in the broader context of different approaches to metropolitan finance and governance. These documents will be publicly available on the Lincoln Institute website as a resource for scholars and practitioners interested in local public finance.