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::Economy::
Economy (Prelims)
- Macroeconomic Concepts
- Meaning of Economics
- Types of Economies
- Sectors of an Economy
- Other Sectors of Economy??
- Microeconomic Concepts
- National Income Concepts and Methods of Calculation
- National Income
- Real National Income
- Calculating National Income
- Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF)
- National?Organizations?Related to National Income Accounts?
- Latest India’s National Income Estimates
- New Series of National Statistics (Base Year 2011-12)
- Annual Estimates of Expenditures on GDP
- Per Capita Income
- Purchasing Power Parity
- Lorenz Curve
- Philip’s Curve
- Gini Coefficient
- ?Inflation
- Concepts and Types of Inflation
- Causes of Inflation
- Effects of Inflation
- Measures of Inflation
- WPI, CPI
- Producer Price Index
- GDP Deflator
- Core Inflation
- Change in Reporting of Inflation
- Measures to Check Inflation??
- Fiscal Measures
- Administrative Measures
- Monentary Measures
- Economic Growth and Development
- Economic Growth
- Economic Development
- Measurement of Economic Development
- Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI)
- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Different Levels of Economic Development
- Economy and Environment?
- Environment?Taxes
- Carbon Tax
- Green Accounting
- 12th Five Year Plan and Sustainability?
- Money Function and Classification
- Money Concept
- Measures of Money Supply in India
- Indian currency system
- Broad and Narrow Money
- Money multiplier
- Digital Money
- New Monetary Aggregates
- Monetary Policy
- Financial Market and its Instruments
- Concept and functions of financial markets
- Importance of money market
- Types of capital market
- Distinguish between capital market and money market
- Nature and functions of a stock exchange
- Advantages of stock exchanges
- Limitations of stock exchanges
- The stock exchanges in India
- Insurance Industry – Insurance Industry and Reforms
- Role of Financial Regulators: SEBI and IRDA
- Banking Structure in India
- Scheduled Commercial Banks
- Nationalized?Banks
- Public Sector Banks?
- State Bank of India
- Private Banks
- Foreign Banks
- Regional Rural Banks
- Scheduled Co-operative Banks
- Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
- Methods of Credit Control
- Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)
- Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)
- Repo Rate
- Reserve Repo Rate
- Call Rates
- Marginal Standing Facility (MSF)
- Bank Rate
- Banking Sector Reforms in India
- Differentiated Banks
- Payment Banks
- Small Banks
- New banking licence
- White Label ATM
- Unified Payments Interface
- Bank Board Bureau
- Marginal Cost of Funds Based Lending Rate (MCLR)
- Priority Sector Lending Certificates
- Concept of Micro ATM
- Banking Reforms
- Basel Norms
- Banking Ombudsman
- Development Financial Institutions
- Insurance Companies
- Recent developments in Economic Sector
- Government to recapitalize the PSB’s
- RBI rule and regulation for peer to peer (P2P) lending
- Domestic Systematically Important Banks (SIBs) of India
- Financial Inclusion in India
- The Concept of Bad Bank
- Alternative Mechanism Panel for PSB consolidation
- Employee Provident Fund of India
- Enforcement Department In RBI
- Gold Monetization Scheme (GMS)
- Indian Post Payment Bank (IPPB)
- Indian Gold Coins/Gold Bullion Scheme
- Budgeting
- Union Budget
- Plan and Non Plan Expenditure
- Revenue Receipts
- Tax Revenue Receipts
- Non-Tax Revenue Receipts
- Fiscal Policy
- Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act, 2003
- Revenue Deficit, Fiscal Deficit, Primary Deficit
- Deficit and Surplus Budget
- Deficit Financing
- Centre State Distribution
- Finance Commission (A280)
- Tax Structure in India
- Tax – Direct Tax, Indirect Tax
- Methods of Taxation – Progressive,
Regressive, Proportional - Value Added Tax – VAT in India
- Goods and Services Tax – GST, GST Council
- Service Tax
- DTC – Direct Tax Code
- Meaning Objectives and History
- Meaning of Economic Planning
- Objectives of?Planning
- Strategies of Planning
- Harrod Domar strategy
- Nehru Mahalonobis strategy
- Gandhian strategy
- LPG strategy
- Regional and National Planning
- Imperative and Indicative Planning
- History of Planning in India
- Visvesvaraya Plan, Gandhian Plan FICCI Proposal, Congress Plan Bombay Plan
- Planning Commission and National Development Council(NDC)
- Central Planning – 5 Year Plans, 20 Point Program, MPLADS
- Decentralized Planning
- Planning Institutions
- Planning Commission
- NITI Aayog
- National Development Council (NDC)
- Five Year Plans in India
- 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017)
- Alternative Scenarios During 12th Plan
- Economic?Reforms?
- Foreign Trade Concepts
- Balance of Payments
- Foreign Capital – FDI, FPI, FII, QFH
- Foreign Exchange–Exchange Rate NEER & REER, ETF
- FERA & FEMA
- Capital Account Convertibility in India
- India’s External Debt
- NRI Deposits
- Trade Composition
- Trade Policy and Agreements
- Import Cover
- Import/Export Controls
- Foreign Trade policy 2015-20
- Export Promotion
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- Exchange Rate
- Exchange Market
- LERMS
- NEER
- REER
- ETF
- International Organization
- United Nations
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- International Maritime Organization (IMO)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- Universal Postal Union (UPU)
- World Bank Group (WBG)
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
- International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- International Development Association (IDA)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- Asian Development Bank
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AII)
- New Development Bank
- African Development Bank
- Trade Agreements
- RCEP
- TPP
- NAFTA
- MERCOSUR
- Southern African Development Community (SADC)
- ASEAN
- SAFTA
- Recent Developments in External Sector
- Global foreign exchange committee
- Price capping of medical devices in India
- Review of the International Investment Agreement (IIA)
- India signed the OECD multilateral convention to prevent BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting)
- Second Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Bharat 22
- Double Tax Avoidance Treaty
- Preferential Trade Agreement with Chile
- Advance Pricing Agreement
- National Committee on Trade Facilitation
- E-tourist Visa
- India’s Asylum Policy
- Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)
ECONOMIC SECTORS
- Poverty
- Definition and Indices
- Poverty?in India
- Human Poverty Index (HPI)
- Expert Groups for Estimating Poverty
- Inequality
- Employment
- Employment and Unemployment
- Poverty?Eradication and Employment Related Related programs
- Government Schemes and?Programs
- New Social Welfare Schemes
- Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)
- Other Social Protection?Programmes?
- Rural Infrastructure and Development
- Urban Infrastructure, Housing and Sanitation
- Education Schemes
- Financial Inclusion Schemes
- Health Schemes
- Women Empowerment?Programmes
- Other Women Empowerment?Programmes
- Social?Security
- Committees
- Ratan P Watal Committee on Digital Payment
- Committee for Market Infrastructure Institution (MII)
- P. J. Nayak Committee
- Deepak Mohanty Committee Report on Medium-term Path on Financial Inclusion
- Narasimham Committee Report on Banking Sector Reforms
- Uday Kotak Committee on Corporate Governance
- Nachiket Mor Committee
Contemporary Issues: Sectors Of Indian Economy (Mains)
- Draft National Food Processing Policy Released
- Initiatives for Fund for Start-Ups
- Companies Need to Look Beyond CSR
- Initiatives to Support MSME Sector
- Model Shop & Establishment Bill, 2016
- National Capital Goods Policy 2016 unveiled
- H-1B Visa Rule Change & It’s Impact on IT Sector
- Unemployment Survey
- Draft Social Security Code
- Analysis of Competition Commission of India
- Exit Issues and Insolvency Resolution Process
- Government Limitations in Job Creation
- The Code on Wages, 2019
- Amendments in Bankruptcy Code
- Contract Worker: Issues and Steps Needed
- Feminization of Agriculture
- Challenges and opportunities of fourth
Industrial Revolution - Why Manufacturing Sector is not able to Generate Jobs?
- Inequality between Large Business Houses & Smaller Businesses
- How Labour Regulations Affect Manufacturing?
- Niti Aayog Launches Agricultural Marketing & Farm Friendly Reforms Index
- Defects in Procurement Policy
- Reforming Trade in Agriculture Products
- Draft Model APMC Act, 2016
- NITI Aayog Report on Agriculture
- Agriculture Export Policy, 2018
- Farm Policies: One-Size-Fits-All do not Work
- Lab to Land: How to Improve
- Agriculture Price Policy in India
- Inland Waterways in India
- Aviation Sector & Regional Connectivity Scheme: Udan
- Air Service Agreement
- Airline Sector: Downtime and the Turnaround
- Privatization of Air India: Critical Analysis
- Help Scheme
- Multi-Modal Transport System
- Bharatmala Pariyojana : Revolution In Indian National Highways
- Privatization of Railways
- Transformation in Indian Railways
- Connecting North East
- Optimising Thermal Power in India
- Reliable and Affordable Energy
- Mineral Auction Rules, 2015
Contemporary Issues: Policy & Reforms In Indian Economy (Mains)
- Low Tax to GDP Ratio: Reasons and Suggestions
- Public Debt Management Cell
- IBBI and Insolvency Rules
- Ponzi Scheme and Issues
- Fat tax: Concept Analysis
- Concept of Municipal Bonds
- Lower Taxes, Higher Compliance: Implication on Economy
- How Shell Companies are used in Black Money?
- Offshore Investments in Tax Havens
- Concept of Google Tax and its Implications
- Sunset Clause and its Significance in Policies
- Government Rule on Capital Gains Tax
- Credit Rating Agencies and their Implications
- Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill
Concept of Wilfull Defaulter
- Concept of Shadow Banking
- Non Performing Assets
- Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate
- Unified Payment Interface
- India Post Payments Bank
- Differentiated Bank Licenses
- Digital Payments Scenario
- Monetary Policy Committee
- Report of Working Group on Development of Corporate Bond Market in India
- IL & FS issue and Corporate Governance in India
- SEBI reforms on Corporate Governance – Uday Kotak Committee
- SEBI and Commodity markets in India
- Concept of Crypto-Currencies
- Crypto Currencies Come Under SEBI Lens
- Corporate Governance: Role of SEBI
- Peer to Peer Lending Firms
- Bank Recapitalization Program
- Lessons on NPA from Global Banks
- Need of Regulatory Regime for Alternative Investment Fund
- Name and Shame Willful Defaulters
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Ease of Doing Business
- Critical Analysis of PM Crop Insurance Scheme
- Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana
- Operation Greens
- Critical Analysis of Banks Board Bureau
- Critical Analysis of Draft Energy Policy
- Critical Analysis of Stand up India Scheme
- New PPP Policy
- Sagarmala Project
- Critical Analysis of Bharatmala Project
- GST ANALYSIS
- How GST has Affected Small Business
- FDI Status and Issues in India
- Permanent Residency Status for Foreign Investors
- WTO Reforms and India’s Stance
- Dispute Settlement Mechanism at WTO
- Gist of Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2015-2020
- Reforms in IMF Quota
- Rising New Form of Protectionism
- BIT Dispute Management Strategy
- Broad Based Trade and Investment Agreement (India-EU FTA Talks)
- Nachiket Mor Committee
- P J Nayak Committee
- Vijay Kelkar Committee on PPP Reforms
- Parthasarathi Shome Committee on GAAR
- Urjit Patel Committee Report on Monetary Policy
- Mahapatra Committee (NBFC Loan Restructuring)
- Usha Thorat Committee (2012)
- Bibek Debroy Committee (Railways)
- N K Singh Panel Report on FRBM Act
- Shanta Kumar Committee
- Watal Committee on Digital Payments
- HR Khan Committee on Foreign Portfolio Investment
- Strategic Partnership Policy to Boost Defence Manufacturing: Dhirendra Singh Committee
Sectors Of Indian Economy (Mains)
- Major crops cropping patterns in various parts of the country
- Different types of irrigation and irrigation systems storage
- Transport and marketing of agricultural produce and issues and related constraints
- e-technology in the aid of farmers
- Issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices
- Public Distribution System – objectives, functioning, limitations, revamping; issues of buffer stocks and food security
- Technology missions
- Economics of animal-rearing
- Food processing and related industries in India- scope and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements, supply chain management.
- Land reforms in India.
- Effects of liberalization on the economy
- Changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth. Other economic development in field of Manufacturing and service sector
ROLE OF AGRICULTURE IN INDIAN ECONOMY
- Land resource
- Land-use pattern and Land capability classification
- Causes and Impact of Land Degradation
- Sustainable Land Management
- Steps taken by GOI
- Objectives of Land Reforms in India
- Progress of Land Reforms in India
- NITI Aayog Report on Land Leasing
- Features of Agricultural Finance
- Criteria for Agricultural Credit
- Need for Agricultural Finance
- Sources of Agricultural Finance
- Problems of Agricultural Finance
- Measures taken to improve credit flow to agriculture
- Co-operative Credit Societies in India
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT INSTITUTIONS
- Multi Agency Approach
- Commercial Bank
- Lead Bank Scheme
- Regional Rural Banks
- National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
- Reserve Bank of India
- Kisan Credit Card Scheme
- Bank Linkage Programme
- Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF)
- Government Policy For Agricultural Credit
- Farmers Service Societies (FSS)
- Issues Related to Crop Insurance
- Pradhan MantriFasalBimaYojana
- Comparison with Earlier Crop Insurance Schemes
- Process of Agricultural Marketing in India
- Structure of Agricultural Marketing in India
- Importance of Proper Agriculture Marketing
- Government Measures to Improve Agricultural Marketing in India
- Analysis of APMC Act
- Objectives of subsidies
- Transfer of resources from gainers from economic policies to losers from economic policies
- Farm Subsidies
- Fertiliser subsidies
- Subsidy on power
- Subsidy on irrigation
- Rationale of Minimum Support Price
- Impact of MSP on inflation
- Public Distribution System: Objectives, functioning, limitations,, revamping, evolution from universal PDS to targeted PDS, Targeted PDS, a critical analysis of cost and benefit of PDS
- Buffer Stock policy and government’s intervention in food market to keep prices under reasonable limits to help consumers
- Food Security bill, questions of resource mobilization for the FSB, criticism of the FSB
- Important questions on the future of subsidies
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTIONS IN INDIA
- Green Revolution
- White Revolution – Operation Flood
- Yellow Revolution
- Blue Revolution
- Golden Fibre Revolution: Jute
- Processed Foods Scenario with respect to Specific Sectors
- Infrastructure Development in Food Processing Sector
- Issues in Food Processing Sector
- FDI Policy in Food Processing
- Notable Trends in the Indian Food Processing Sector
- Strategies Adopted in Budget
- New foreign and domestic investment
- Sector-specific government policies
INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT: MAIN ISSUES
- 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 since independence
MAIN FEATURES OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
- 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
- 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
- Make in India achievements
Policy & Reforms In Indian Economy (Mains)
- Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, growth, development and unemployment
- Mobilization of resources
- Government Budgeting.
- Investment models.
- Financial and Money Market
- Inflation
- Direct and Indirect taxes
- Inclusive growth & issues arising from it.
INDIAN ECONOMY AND ISSUES RELATING TO PLANNING
- Role and objectives of Indian Planning
- Planning Experience at the Centre and State level.
- Regulatory Role of the State
- Development Strategy in India’s Five Year Plan
- Mahalanobis’ Four-Sector Growth Model and Employment Generation
- Tackling the Problems of Poverty and Unemployment
- Vital Role of the Public Sector
- Analysis of India’s Economic Performance in Development Planning
- Trends in Saving and Capital Formation since Independence
- Role of NITI Aayog in Cooperative federalism
- Types of Resources: Physical and Financial
- Need for Resource Mobilization- Police State and Democratic Welfare State policies
- Sources of Resource Mobilization: Public Sector and Private Sector
- Taxation and Mobilization of Resources for Economic Growth
- Direct Taxes and Mobilisation of Resources
- Agricultural Taxation & Resource Mobilisation
- Role of Indirect Taxes in Resource Mobilisation
- Mobilization of financial resources through Government Revenues
- 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
- Multi-lateral agencies and resource mobilization
- Challenges to Resource Mobilization
INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND ISSUES ARISING FROM IT
- Meaning and concept of Inclusion
- India’s experience of Inclusion
- Why India’s growth is not inclusive?: Rural economy based growth, Need of Sustainable agriculture, food security and resilience for growth
- What are the solutions?
- Inclusion process through Social sector flagship schemes and Ground realities
- Public distribution schemes: Can it be the 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
- Budget terminology
- Types of budget
- Features of Outcome budgeting , Gender Budgeting
- Benefits of budgeting
- Flaws in budgeting process
- Merger of Railway and General Budget
- Budget analysis
- Measures of Investment
- Factors affecting investment
- Classification of Investments : FDI
- Angel Investors and Start-ups
- Investment Models
- Role of State
- PPP (Public-Private Partnership)
- Savings and Investment Trends
- Fiscal Concept and Fiscal Policy in India
- Government Revenues & Spending Trends
- Impact of deficits on economic growth
- Twin Balance Sheet syndrome
- Types of Deficit
- Objectives and Principles of Taxation
- Taxation for Mobilization of Resources
- Taxation System in India
- Tax Reforms
- GST and its impact on different sectors
- Subsidies and its Impact
- Instruments of Monetary Policy
- Monetary policy in Pre-Reform Era (1948 – 1991)
- Monetary Policy in Post-Reform Era (Since – 1991)
- Urjit Patel Committee Report
- Monetary Policy Committee and Inflation Targeting
- Money Market and Capital Market in India
- Regulatory Framework in Indian Capital Market
- Primary Market Reforms in India
- Secondary Market Reforms in India
- Current and capital account convertiblity
- Risks of financial system
- Indian Banking System
- Terminologies/Concepts Related to Banking in India
- Nationalization of Banks in India
- Functions of Commercial Banks
- Challenges Faced by Commercial Banks in India
- Banking Reforms in India
- New Bank License Criteria
- Small Finance Banks and Payment Banks Criteria
- Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC)
- Financial Inclusion
- Issue of NPAs
- Bills related to Banking
FOREIGN TRADE & INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Trends in International Trade
- Foreign Trade Policy
- Balance of Payments and Foreign Capital
- Impact of Globalization on Indian Economy
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- World Trade Organisation (WTO)
- World Bank Group AIIB and NDB
