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Introductory Microeconomics

Unit I: Introduction to Microeconomics

• What is microeconomics?

• Central problems

Unit II: Consumer Behaviour and Demand

• Consumer’s Equilibrium: meaning and attainment of equilibrium through Utility Approach: One and two commodity cases.

• Demand: market demand, determinants of demand, demand schedule, demand curve, movement along and shifts in the demand curve, price elasticity of demand, measurement of price elasticity of demand – percentage, total expenditure, and geometric methods .
• Introductory Macroeconomics
• Unit III: National Income and Related Aggregates – Basic Concepts and Measurement
• Macroeconomics: meaning. • Circular flow of income,
• concepts of GDP, GNP, NDP, NNP (at market price and factor cost).
• Measurement of National Income -Value Added method,
• Income method, and Expenditure method. Unit IV: Determination of Income and Employment
• Aggregate demand, aggregate supply, and their components • Propensity to consume and propensity to save (average and marginal)
• Meaning of involuntary unemployment and full employment
• Determination of income and employment: two-sector model • Concept of investment multiplier and its working
• Problems of excess and deficient demand Measures to correct excess and deficient demand availability of credit, change in government spending
• Unit V: Money and Banking
• Money: meaning, evolution, and functions
• Central bank: meaning and functions
• Commercial banks: meaning and functions Unit VI: Government Budget and the Economy
• Government budget – meaning and its components Objectives of government budget
  
  
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• Classification of receipts-revenue and capital; classification of expenditure-revenue and capital, plan and non-plan, and developmental and non-developmental
• Balanced budget, surplus budget, and deficit budget: meaning and implications
• • Revenue deficit, fiscal deficit, and primary deficit: meaning and implications; measures to contain different deficits.
• Unit VII: Balance of Payments
• • Foreign exchange rate-meaning (fixed and flexible), merits and demerits; determination through demand and supply
• Balance of payments accounts – meaning and components A brief analysis of recent exchange rate issues
• Indian Economic Development
• Unit VIII: Development Experience (1947-90) and Economic
• Reforms since 1991 A brief introduction of the state of the Indian economy on
• the eve of independence. Indian economic system and common goals of Five year Plans.
• Main features, problems and policies of agriculture (institutional aspects and new agricultural strategy), industry (IPR 1956; SSI-role & importance) and foreign trade,
• Unit IX: Current challenges facing the Indian Economy •
• Poverty absolute and relative; Main programmes for
• poverty alleviation: A critical assessment;
• Human Capital Formation How many people become resource; Role of human capital in economic development;

Rural development: Key issues – credit and marketing – role of cooperatives; agricultural diversification;

Employment: Growth and changes in work force participation rate in formal and informal sectors; problems and policies

• Infrastructure: Meaning and Types: Cases Studies: Health: Problems and

Policies-A critical assessment;

• Sustainable Economic Development: Meaning, Effects of Economic Development on Resources and Environment, including global warming

Unit X: Development Experience of India

A comparison with neighbours

• India and Pakistan

• India and China

• Issues: economic growth, population, sectoral development and other Human Development Indicators