INDIAN ECONOMY: PERFORMANCE & POLICIES (FOR UNIVERSITY OF DELHI)

• Basic Issues in Economic Development: Concept and Measures of Development, Underdevelopment and Human Development • Basic Features of the Indian Economy at the Time of independence: Composition of National Income, Occupational Structure, the Agrarian Scene and the Industrial Structure • Policy Regimes: The Evolution of Planning in India • Policy Regimes: The Economic Reforms and Liberalization • Growth, Development and Structural Changes in the Indian Economy: Experience of Growth, Development and Structural Changes • Growth and Distribution—Unemployment • Poverty • Human Development and Environmental Concerns • Demographic Constraints—Population Change and Economic Development • Agriculture—Growth and Performance • Agricultural Price Policy, Public Distribution System and Food Security • Agriculture Credit, Marketing and Insurance • Industrialization—Rate and Pattern of Industrial Growth • The Small-scale Sector: Role and Performance, Problems, Rationale for Promotion, Government Initiatives and Measures, Development under Five-Year Plans • Public Sector in India—Role, Performance and Reforms • Foreign Capital • The Financial Sector: Structure, Performance; and Reforms. Foreign Trade and Balance of Payments; Structural Changes and Performance of India's Foreign Trade and Balance of Payments; Trade Policy Debate; Export Policies and Performance; Macroeconomic Stabilization and Structural Adjustment; India and the WTO

• Data updated as per Twelfth Five-Year Plan
• Adequate statistical information to help in the analysis of topics
• Authentic and reliable sources of information
• Questions from previous years' examinations to help students understand the pattern of questions