Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Fiscal decentralization and local government finance
2. Language of Instruction:
Tiếng Việt
3. Course Code:
FIS604022
4. Credits:
2
5. Course Objectives:
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
The subject focuses on policy and governance options to effectively empower local governments to improve public goods supply, economic governance and citizen participation.
Specifically, the subject will discuss the role of urban and rural governments in providing public goods and services to residents with local differences. Theoretical and practical aspects of fiscal decentralization, with detailed analysis of four basic contents of the rationality of local-central expenditures, revenue diversification, design of financial transfers intergovernmental borrowing, local government borrowing, and implementation of decentralized reforms to improve. In addition, the course also presents methods of setting up, operating and managing local budgets, and discusses funding policies for education, infrastructure development, poverty reduction, etc.