Financing metropolitan areas in Brazil: political, institutional and legal obstacles and emergence of new proposals for improving coordination O financiamento de áreas metropolitanas no Brasil: obstáculos políticos, institucionais e jurídicos e novas propostas para melhorar a coordenação

As of the 1988 Constitution, the states, by means of a constitutional amendment, may establish metropolitan regions in order to integrate the organization, planning and operation of public functions of common interest of the states and their respective municipalities. Despite some attempts to overco...

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Main Authors: Fernando Rezende, Sol Garson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2006-04-01
Series:Revista de Economia Contemporânea
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-98482006000100001