Economics-Indian Economic Development
Part B: Indian Economic Development
Exam Structure
| Part B | Part B: Indian Economic Development | |
| 4. | Development Experience (1947-90) and | 13 |
| Economic Reforms since 1991 | 12 | |
| 5. | Current Challenges facing Indian Economy | 15 |
| 6. | Development Experience of India – A Comparison with Neighbours (OTBA) | 10 |
| Part C | Project Work | 10 |
Part B: Indian Economic Development
Unit 4: Development Experience (1947-90) and Economic Reforms since 1991
- A brief introduction of the state of Indian economy on the eve of independence. Common goals of Five Year Plans.
- Main features, problems and policies of agriculture (institutional aspects and new agricultural strategy, etc.), industry (industrial licensing, etc.) and foreign trade.
- Economic Reforms since 1991:
- Need and main features – liberalisation, globalisation and privatisation; An appraisal of LPG policies
Unit 5: Current challenges facing Indian Economy
- Poverty – absolute and relative; Main programmes for poverty alleviation: A critical assessment;
- Rural development: Key issues – credit and marketing – role of cooperatives; agricultural diversification; alternative farming – organic farming
- Human Capital Formation: How people become resource; Role of human capital in economic development; Growth of Education Sector in India
- Employment: Formal and informal, growth and other issues: Problems and policies.
- Inflation: Problems and Policies
- Infrastructure: Meaning and Types: Case Studies: Energy and Health: Problems and Policies- A critical assessment;
- Sustainable Economic Development: Meaning, Effects of Economic Development on Resources and Environment, including global warming.
Unit 6: Development Experience of India
- A comparison with neighbours
- India and Pakistan
- India and China
- Issues: growth, population, sectoral development and other developmental indicators.
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Class X1 – IED – Chapter 2 : Indian Economy 1950-1990
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Class X1 – IED – Chapter 3 : Liberalisationn, Privatisation, and Globalisation : An Appraisal
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Class X1 – IED – Chapter 4 : Poverty
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Class X1 – IED – Chapter 5 : Human Capital Formation in India
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Class X1 – IED – Chapter 6 : Rural Development
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Class X1 – IED – Chapter 7 : Employment: Growth, Informalisation and Other issues
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Class X1 – IED – Chapter 8 : Infrastructure
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Class X1 – IED – Chapter 9 : Environment and Sustainable Development
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Class X1 – IED – Chapter 10 : Comparative Development Experience of India and Its Neighbours
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