आर्थिक संवृद्धि एवं विकास (Economic Growth and Development)

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आर्थिक संवृद्धि एवं विकास (Economic Growth and Development) Syllabus For B.A. Vth Semester of Various Universities of Uttar Pradesh

• Unit I : Meaning and Measurement of Economic Growth and Development : Measuring Development and Development Gap, GDP, GNP, Per Capita Income, Factors affecting Economic growth and Development.
• Unit II : Concept of Poverty and Inequality, Vicious cycle of poverty, Lorenz Curve, Gini Coefficient Concept of Human Development, Human Development Index, Physical Quality of Life Index, Quality of Life Indices. Hunger Index, Happiness Index, Development and Sustainability. Concept of Sustainable Development. Millennium Development goals.
• Unit III : Lewis model of labour surplus economy, Rosentein Rodan’s theory of Big Push, Nelson’s Level equilibrium trap, balanced vs Un-balanced growth, Rostow’s stages of growth, Harrod and Domar Growth models.
• Unit IV : Theory of Demographic Transition, Population as Limits to Growth. The Concept of Inclusive Growth—With Reference to India, Market Failure and Government Failure, Food Security, Education, Health and Nutrition, Gender and Development.
• Unit V : Development and Underdevelopment : An Overview; The Characteristics and explanations of Underdevelopment—Vicious Circle of Poverty, Circular Causation, Dualism—Social, Technogical, Financial, Organizational, Model of Dual Economy, Lewis, Rains-Fei, Jorgenson, Dependency Theories of underdevelopment.
• Unit VI : Models of Technical Progress, Embodied and Disembodied Technical Progress, Neutral Technical Progress—Hicks, Harrod, Solow, Kaldor, Mirrlees Technical Progress Functions, Arrow’s Learning by Doing Approach to Economic Growth.
• Unit VII : Accumulation Endogenous growth, Intellectual capital, Role of Learning, Education and Research, Explanations of Cross country Differentials in Economic Growth, Information Paradigm-Stilglitz.
• Unit VIII : International Trade, Aid and Finance in the Development of Developing Countries—With special reference to India. FDI and FII, Role of Technology Transfer and Multinational Corporations in promoting development in development of developing countries—With Special Reference ot India.