COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PUBLIC FINANCE POLICY IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN GLOBALIZATION PROCESS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 3610 PUBLIC FINANCE POLICY IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN GLOBALIZATION PROCESS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Finance

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ASUMAN ALTAY

Offered to

Public Finance
Public Finance

Course Objective

This course aims at examining the changing structures and operations of government fiscal systems in less developed countries, with particular emphasis on the growing trend to strengthen sub-national governments.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Exploring how governments make decisions about what public services to provide
2   Exploring alternative ways that governments raise revenues to finance the delivery of services;
3   Determining an appropriate division of fiscal responsibilities among levels of government
4   Assessing prospects and options for pursuing decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal reform
5   Analysing fiscal, political, institutional and cultural considerations.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

HAZIRLIK - FOREIGN LANGUAGE PREPARATION CLASS

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: New Directions in Development Thinking
2 Introduction to Decentralization
3 The Political Economy of Local Governments
4 Organizing the Delivery of Public Services
5 Introduction to taxation
6 Property and land taxation
7 The Logic of Rent Seeking and Rent-Seeking Losses
8 Mid-term exam
9 Mid-term exam
10 Corruption, tax evasion, and good governance
11 The role of borrowing financing capital infrastructure
12 Intergovernmental finance: Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: International Lessons for Developing Countries
13 Intergovernmental finance: Financing Health, Education, and Welfare in the Less Developed Countries
14 Implementing decentralization, Urban finance in developing countries

Recomended or Required Reading

Stephen B. Webb, Argentina: Hardening the Provincial Budget Constraint, Chapter 6 in Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints, edited by Jonathan Rodden, Gunnar S. Eskeland, and Jennie Litvack, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2003
Anwar Shah, A Practitioner s Guide to Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers, chapter 1 in Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: Principles and Practice, edited by Robin Boadway and Anwar Shah, Washington, DC, The World Bank, 2007.
Richard M. Bird, User Charges in Local Government Finance, Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations & Local Financial Management Program, World Bank Institute, 1999.
Edwin S. Mills, The Importance of Large Urban Areas and Governments Roles in Fostering Them, in Local Dynamics in an Era of Globalization: 21st Century Catalysts for Development, edited by Shahid Yusuf, Simon J. Evenett, and Weiping Wu.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Course is discussed theoretically by expression and presentation and subjects are supported by discussions and evaluations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE STT * 0.30 + MTE * 0.70
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: asuman.altay@deu.edu.tr. Office room number is 505

Office Hours

14:30 PM to 16:30 PM on most Mondays and Tuesday

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 12 12
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 115

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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