发展中国家的城市公共财政（麻省理工大学城市研究与规划系）

Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

Course Description and Objectives

Cities in the developing world are faced with a dilemma: they have some

of the fastest growing populations in the world that require more urban

services than ever but they also have limited fiscal and institutional

capacity to provide them.

This course explores the question of how to pay for urban public services

in developing countries. It surveys both public finance theory and applied

policy debates. Students of this course should come away with facility

in public finance analysis, familiarity with a variety of sources of

public finance and their tradeoffs, and a general theoretical framework

with which to approach real urban financing problems in developing

countries.

This course is a policy-oriented public finance course which uses cases,

explicitly discusses the implicit ethical issues, and considers diverse

public financing arrangements and institutional contexts in order to

appreciate the difficult choices the public sector faces in developing

countries. Students should have taken at least one micro-economic theory

course as a pre-requisite or consult the professor. As needed, the

instructor will schedule recitations for students who would benefit from

additional help in mastering the material.

Grading

Students will submit the following and be graded according to the

following weights:

Grading Criteria

activities percentages

Problem Sets 40%

Final Exam 50%

Reading Presentation 10%

Problem Sets

There will be four problem sets due in the course.

Final Take-Home Exam

The final exam is an open-book, open-note exam. Students will be asked

to display their understanding of the concepts discussed in the reading

and class meetings.

Reading Presentation

In an effort to promote lively classroom discussion and encourage students

to do the reading, each student will sign up to do a very short 10-minute

presentation of the day's discussion case.

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