unhabitat.urban.city_budget
Retrieve municipal budget and expenditure data from the UN-Habitat Global Municipal Database. Covers 1,207 cities worldwide with total budget (USD), budget per capita, capital expenditure, own-source revenue, and sector-wise expenditure percentages (education, health, transport, water, energy, sa...
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What unhabitat.urban.city_budget does on Apibase
AI agents call unhabitat.urban.city_budget to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
city | string | — | Filter by city name (partial match, e.g. "Nairobi", "Lagos", "Mumbai"). Case-insensitive. |
limit | integer | — | Maximum number of cities to return (1–100, default 50). |
region | string | — | Filter by UN-Habitat region (partial match). Regions include "Sub-Saharan Africa", "Northern America and Europe", "Eastern and South-Eastern Asia", "Central and |
country | string | — | Filter by country name (partial match, e.g. "Kenya", "United States", "Brazil"). Case-insensitive. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why unhabitat.urban.city_budget is rated Low
Tool queries and retrieves public financial data with no modification, deletion, or execution capabilities.
From the tool's definition Retrieve municipal budget and expenditure data from database
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The rule that runs unhabitat.urban.city_budget safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For unhabitat.urban.city_budget, this is the rule to start with:
unhabitat.urban.city_budget is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every unhabitat.urban.city_budget call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about unhabitat.urban.city_budget
Retrieve municipal budget and expenditure data from the UN-Habitat Global Municipal Database. Covers 1,207 cities worldwide with total budget (USD), budget per capita, capital expenditure, own-source revenue, and sector-wise expenditure percentages (education, health, transport, water, energy, sanitation, solid waste, public housing, streets, buildings). Filter by country, city, or UN region. Income group (low/lower-middle/upper-middle/high) included. Useful for comparative municipal finance analysis and urban governance research. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
unhabitat.urban.city_budget accepts 4 parameters: city, limit, region, country. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for unhabitat.urban.city_budget: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
unhabitat.urban.city_budget is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the unhabitat.urban.city_budget rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for unhabitat.urban.city_budget. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
unhabitat.urban.city_budget is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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