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ses #Topicskey dates
1Introduction to Course
2Justifications for Public Finance: Public Goods and ExternalitiesStudent Presentation: Externalities
3Ethical Frameworks
4Justifications for Public Finance: Economic Development
5The Fiscal Gap: Fiscal Health and Analysis
6The Fiscal Gap: Revenues and Expenditures

Budget Deficits and Inflation
Problem set 1 due one day after session 6
7Public Finance Theory: Efficiency - Optimal Taxation, Optimal User FeesStudent Presentation: Efficiency
8Efficiency (cont.)Student Presentation: Incidence
9Public Finance Theory: Equity, Incidence in the General Equilibrium Model
10Incidence (cont.)
11Property Taxation in Developing Countries
12Guest Lecture on Property Tax

Guest Speaker: Yu-Hung Hong
Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Topic: Current Property Tax Reforms in China
13Property Tax (cont.)
14Tax ReformStudent Presentation: Tax Reform

Problem set 2 due one day before session 14
15User Fees in Developing CountriesStudent Presentation: User Fees
16Intergovernmental TransfersStudent Presentation: Transfers
17Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization
18Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization (cont.)Student Presentation: The Chilean Case

Problem set 3 due one day after session 18
19Source of Finance: Private Sector ParticipationStudent Presentation: Private Sector
20Private Sector (cont.)
21Case Study of Private Sector ParticipationProblem set 4 due one day before session 21
22Source of Finance: International Lending Agencies: Programming Assistance, Conditionalities, Debt, Inflation, Structural AdjustmentStudent Presentation: International Lending
23International Lending (cont.)
24MicroFinance History and DesignStudent Presentation: MicroFinance
25MicroFinance Case
26Final Exam

 








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