Urban Public Finance in Developing Countries

Calendar

ses #	Topics	key dates
1	Introduction to Course
2	Justifications for Public Finance: Public Goods and Externalities	Student Presentation: Externalities
3	Ethical Frameworks
4	Justifications for Public Finance: Economic Development
5	The Fiscal Gap: Fiscal Health and Analysis
6	The Fiscal Gap: Revenues and Expenditures Budget Deficits and Inflation	Problem set 1 due one day after session 6
7	Public Finance Theory: Efficiency - Optimal Taxation, Optimal User Fees	Student Presentation: Efficiency
8	Efficiency (cont.)	Student Presentation: Incidence
9	Public Finance Theory: Equity, Incidence in the General Equilibrium Model
10	Incidence (cont.)
11	Property Taxation in Developing Countries
12	Guest Lecture on Property Tax Guest Speaker: Yu-Hung Hong , Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy  Topic: Current Property Tax Reforms in China
13	Property Tax (cont.)
14	Tax Reform	Student Presentation: Tax Reform Problem set 2 due one day before session 14
15	User Fees in Developing Countries	Student Presentation: User Fees
16	Intergovernmental Transfers	Student Presentation: Transfers
17	Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization
18	Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization (cont.)	Student Presentation: The Chilean Case Problem set 3 due one day after session 18
19	Source of Finance: Private Sector Participation	Student Presentation: Private Sector
20	Private Sector (cont.)
21	Case Study of Private Sector Participation	Problem set 4 due one day before session 21
22	Source of Finance: International Lending Agencies: Programming Assistance, Conditionalities, Debt, Inflation, Structural Adjustment	Student Presentation: International Lending
23	International Lending (cont.)
24	MicroFinance History and Design	Student Presentation: MicroFinance
25	MicroFinance Case
26	Final Exam