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ECO 421 Advanced Public Sector Economics

400 levelSocial Sciences10 topics

ECO 421 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Rationale for government intervention in the economy
  2. Public goods and externalities
  3. The theory of taxation
  4. Tax incidence and tax shifting
  5. Principles of a good tax system
  6. Public expenditure analysis
  7. Public debt and its sustainability
  8. Fiscal federalism
  9. Government budgeting and the budget cycle
  10. Fiscal policy in Nigeria

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Rationale for government intervention in the economy

The rationale for government intervention in the economy explains why markets alone may not always produce efficient, fair, or stable outcomes. For exam purposes, you must master the major reasons for intervention such as market failure, income redistribution, macroeconomic stability, provision of public goods, and regulation, because these ideas are central to public sector economics.

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