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Contents: Part 1: National frameworks to balance fiscal discipline and local investment needs -- Chapter 1: Fiscal responsibility legislation and fiscal adjustment: the case of Brazilian local governments / Luiz de Mello -- Chapter 2: China: fiscal framework and urban infrastructure finance / Su Ming and Zhao Quanhou -- Chapter 3: Overview or urban infrastructure finance in India / Subhash Chandra Garg -- Chapter 4: Infrastructure development in Poland: the issues at stake / Krzystof Ners -- Chapter 5: Fiscal decentralization and the financing of urban infrastructure in South Africa / Philip van Ryneveld -- Part 2: Mobilizing local infrastructure finance -- Chapter 6: Urban infrastructure investment and financing in shanghai / Gao Guo Fu -- Chapter 7: Mobilizing financing for urban sanitation infrastructure in Brazil / Aser Cortines and Sandra Bondarovsky -- Chapter 8: Tamil Nadu urban development fund: public-private partnership in an infrastructure finance intermediary / L. Krishnan -- Chapter 9: INCA: A South African private sector intermediary / Johan Kruger and George E. Peterson -- Chapter 10: Land leasing and land sale as an infrastructure financing option / George E. Peterson -- Chapter 11: Urban infrastructure finance from private operators: what have we learned from recent experience? / Patricia Clarke Annez.