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syllabus for M.Com., Economics of Developing Countries
Posted Date: 28 Aug 2008 Resource Type: News/Announcements Category: Campus News
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Posted By: lalitha rajappa Member Level: Diamond
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Economics of Developing Countries Group – A (Compulsory)
1. Concepts of growth, development and under development – Indicators and
measurement of development – Minimum needs – Physical quality of Life Index.
2. (a) Inter-relationship between population and development – Demo-graphic
transition, Population Trap – Population Policy in developing countries.
(b) Nature and problem of unemployment and underemployment in
developing countries – Employment Policies.
(c) Concept of Poverty Line – Indicators and poverty – Dimenation of poverty
in third world – Poverty policies and programmes – Inter-relationship
between population, poverty, and unemployment.
3. Transformation of agriculture – Technological and institutional changes in
agriculture and their impact on production, productivity and equity.
4. Strategies of Industrialisation – Impact of alternative strategies of growth, self–
reliance and employment – Govt. policies of industrialisation in under–
developed countries and their effects – Choice of techniques of production –
Appropriate technology for developing countries.
5. Role of Monetory and Fiscal policies in economic development – Tax structure
and policies in developing countries – Taxation, borrowing and deficit financing
as a methods of financing – Public expenditure and their effects.
6. Market economy – its limitations–role of planning in development–models of
planning (Aggregate, sectoral and input–output models – basic concepts only)–
Experience and process of planning in developing countries.
7. Foreign trade and development – Inward looking and outward looking trade
policy and development – Custom union in developing countries – Foreign
capital, foreign aid and burden of repayment of debt – Transfer of technology–
Multinational Corporations.
8. Working of International Monetary System–Exchange Rate policies–Problem of
International Monetary System – Reforms in the present monetary system with
reference to developing countries – New World economic order.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Economic in the Third World : Michael P. Todaro
2. Economics of Development and Planning : S.K.Misra and V.K.Puri
Theory and Practice
3. Economic Planning – Theory and Practice : M. L. Sheth and S. P. Singh
4. Economic Development : Benjamin Higgins
For more details, visit http://www.hlcollege.edu/pdfs/mcomIsyllabus.PDF
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