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Posted March 24, 2016
UN-Habitat and Lincoln Institute pilot a Global Municipal Database for Sustainable Urbanization
Top officials from UN-Habitat and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy signed an agreement in Mexico City this month to create a pilot for a global municipal fiscal database that will result in the reporting of fiscal data for select cities in Asia, Latin America and Africa…