Call for Applications: The IMFG Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance and the Blanche and Sandy Van Ginkel Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance have been announced for 2011-2012. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2011. Please visit the IMFG website or contact Enid Slack at enid.slack@utoronto.ca for more information.
Find out more »On July 11th, Richard Bird and Enid Slack presented a paper on Metropolitan Public Finance at a conference on “Metropolitan Government Finance in Developing Countries” held at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
Find out more »IMFG invited Izabella Barati-Stec, Associate Professor at Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary, as our Visiting Scholar for fall 2011. Prof. Barati-Stec will be researching changes in state control over municipal borrowing as a result of the economic downturn.
Find out more »IMFG invited applications for the Blanche and Sandy Van Ginkel Fellowship, which is offered annually to a full-time graduate student who is enrolled at the University of Toronto, and who is engaged in studies related to municipal finance or governance. Preference will be given to students who are interested in the impact of municipal finance […]
Find out more »IMFG invited applications for a one-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Research should be pertinent to IMFG’s focus on the finance and governance issues faced by large cities and city-regions in Canada and around the world. The Fellowship will commence September 1, 2011, and offers $50,000 of financial support for the following twelve months. Eligibility was limited to […]
Find out more »On September 28th, Enid Slack was quoted in an article in the Globe and Mail entitled “Sensible solution to Toronto’s money woes would look at both revenues and expenses.”
Find out more »On September 22nd, Enid Slack was quoted in The Chronicle Herald in an article entitled “Assessment cap has become tax burden for less affluent.”
Find out more »On August 29th, Enid Slack was quoted in the Wall Street Journal in an article entitled “When Civic Mergers Don’t Save Money.”
Find out more »On August 14th, Enid Slack appeared in the Toronto Star in an article entitled “Is it bad for cities to be in debt? Not necessarily.”
Find out more »The Blanche and Sandy van Ginkel Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance was awarded to Scott Sams in August. Scott is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto.
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