Indian Economy and issues relating to planning
- Indian Economy in Pre-independence Period
- Economy of Eve of Independence
- Challenges
- Features
- Post-Independence India
- Issues
- Agriculture and its development so far
- Agricultural Terms
- Industry
- Services
- Phases of Economic Development in India
- Nehruvian Socialist Economy
- Economic Reforms
- Planning
- Objectives
- Technical details
- Planning History
- Analysis of each plan
Resource Mobilization
- Types of resources: Physical capital and finance capital
- Need for resource mobilization- Police State and Democratic Welfare State
- Sources of resource mobilization: Public Sector and Private Sector
- Savings and investment over the five year plan
- Budgetary resources: Tax and non tax
- Role of Public Debt in resource mobilization and effects: Market borrowing, loans, grants etc.
- Role of fiscal and monetary policies in resource mobilization
- Role of foreign investment in resource mobilization, desirability and consequences
- Multilateral agencies and resource mobilisation
- Physical resources
Inclusive growth and issues arising from it
- Meaning and concept of Inclusion
- Why inclusion and India’s experience
- Social section initiative and inclusion process
- Ground reality and working of flagship schemes
- India’s growth story in this context
- Why India’s growth is not inclusive
- Rural economy based growth.
- Sustainable agriculture, food security and resilience for growth.
- Public distribution schemes: Way to inclusive growth.
- Financial inclusion as an instrument of inclusive growth.
- Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation as a strategy for inclusive growth.
- Social sector development as an instrument for inclusive growth.
- Public private partnership for inclusive growth.
- Industrial Integration for inclusive growth.
- Sectoral and regional diversification as a tool for inclusive growth.
- Conclusion on the basis Analysis of 11th and 12 five year plan document – assessment
Government Budgeting
- Budget terminology
- Types of budget
- Features of outcome budgeting
- Merger of Railway and General Budget
- Benefits of budgeting
- Flaws in budgeting process
- Budget analysis
Industrial policy and industrial development: Main Issues
- What is an industrial policy?
- Evolution of India’s industrial policy
- Mahalanobis strategy and India’s industrial policy-Discussing Industrial policy resolution 1948 and 1956 critically
- New Economic Policy and Industrial policy under the policy of liberalization, privatization and globalization
- Phases of Industrial development
- Foundational Phase till 1966
- Phase of recession and retrogression between 1966-1979
- Phase of revival in 1980s till 1990
- The phase of reforms since the New Economic Policies, New Industrial policy 1991
- Main features of Industrial development in India
- Sectoral composition
- Roles of private sector and public sector, Investment in the industrial sector, employment, productivity, profit etc.
- Strategies for disinvestment and privatization
- Role of Small, Medium and Micro enterprises, Government Policy, main problems, effects of globalization
- New manufacturing policy
- Industrial disbursal and Industrial corridors
- SEZs- Main issues like land use, relocation of same industries that exist, exports earnings vs loss of tax income
- Industrial sickness, institutional mechanism to support the sick industries, exit policy issues
- Main constraints in the industrial development of India
- Industry in the 11th and 12th plan-Main thrust areas
- Effects of globalization on industries, Sub-prime crisis and sovereign debt crisis on Industry in India
- Industrial Finance in India: Role of development banking, commercial banking, venture capital, angel capital in industrialization and promotion of entrepreneurship
Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways, etc
- Hard Infrastructure
- Transport Infrastructure
- Energy Infrastructure
- Water management infrastructure
- Communication Infrastructure
- Solid waste management
- Earth monitoring and measuring networks
- Soft Infrastructure
- Governance Infrastructure
- Economic infrastructure
- Social infrastructure
- Critical Infrastructure
- Urban infrastructure
- Green infrastructure
- Importance of Social and Economic overhead Capital in Economic Development
- Importance of Infrastructure- Economic growth and development, Advantages of connectivity, Enhancing production and distribution, Attracting FDI and domestic investment, improving living Standards etc.
- The Present State of Infrastructure in India
- Roads and Railways
- Electricity
- Irrigation
- Airports and sea ports
- Education Infrastructure
- Health Infrastructure
- Infrastructure development programmes in India – the Golden Quadrilateral, National Highway Development Programme, Industrial Corridors, Manufacturing hubs, Sethusamudram project, J&K railway project, weather forecast and disaster management, television and broadcasting, telecommunications
- Important issues
- Ownership and financing
- Pricing of Public utilities
- Infrastructure as avenues for investment
- Project delays-reasons and measures to overcome
- Public Private Partnership and related issues
- Operation and Maintenance of roads, railways, irrigation and power projects-Main problems and solutions
- Impact of Infrastructure-Economic Impacts, impact on social development, Environmental impacts
Investment models
- Measures of Investment
- Capital and investment
- Factors affecting investment
- Classification of Investment
- FDI
- Angel Investors and Start-ups
- M&A
- Investment Models
- Role of State
- PPP (Public-Private Partnership)
- Savings and Investment Trends