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ECO-HC-5016: INDIAN ECONOMY-I

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Readings: 

1. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, 2013. An Uncertain 

Glory: India and its Contradictions, Princeton University Press. 

2. Pulapre Balakrishnan, 2007, The Recovery of India: Economic Growth in the 

Nehru Era, Economic and Political Weekly, November. 

3. Rakesh  Mohan,  2008,―Growth  Record  of Indian Economy:1950-2008. A Story  of 

Sustained Savings and Investment, Economic and Political Weekly, May. 

4. S.L. Shetty, 2007,―India‘s Savings Perform ance since the Advent of Planning, in 

K.L. Krishna and A. Vaidyanathan, editors, Institutions and Markets in India’s 

Development. 

5. Himanshu, 2010, Towards New Poverty Lines for India, Economic and 

Political Weekly, January. 

6. Jean  Dreze  and  Angus  Deaton,  2009,  Food  and  Nutrition  in  India:  Facts 

and Intepretations, Economic and Political Weekly, February. 

7. Himanshu. 2011, ―Employment Trends in India: A Re-examination, 

Economicand Political Weekly, September. 

8. Rama Baruetal, 2010,  ―Inequities  in  Access to Health Services  in India: Caste, 

Class and Region, Economic and Political Weekly, September. 

9. Geeta  G. Kingdon,  2007,―The Progress  of  School  Education  in  India,  Oxford 

Review of Economic Policy. 

10. J.B.G. Tilak,  2007,―Post Elementary  Education,  Poverty  and  Development  in 

India, International Journal of Educational Development. 

11. T. Dyson,2008,―India‘s Demographic Transition and its Consequences for 

Development  ǁ in  Uma  Kapila,  editor,  Indian  Economy  Since  Independence, 

19thedition, Academic Foundation. 

12. Kaushik Basu, 2009,―ChinaandIndia: Idiosyncratic Paths to High Growth, 

Economic and Political Weekly, September. 

13. K.James,2008,  ―Glorifying  Malthus:  Current  Debate  on  Demographic  Dividend 

in Indiaǁ, Economic and Political Weekly, June. 

14. Reetika Khera, 2011,―India‘s Public Distribution System: Utilisation and Impact 

Journal of Development Studies. 

15. Aniruddha  Krishna  and  Devendra  Bajpai,  2011,―Lineal  Spread  and  Radial 

Dissipation: Experiencing Growth in Rural India, 1992-2005, Economic and Political Weekly, September.

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ECO-HC-5026: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS-I

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Readings 

 

1. Debraj Ray, Development Economics, Oxford University Press,2009. 

2.  Partha Dasgupta,  Economics,  A  Very  Short  Introduction,  Oxford  University 

Press,2007. 

3. Abhijit Banerjee, Roland Benabou and Dilip Mookerjee, Understanding 

Poverty, Oxford University Press,2006. 

4. Kaushik Basu, The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, OUP,2007. 

5. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom, OUP,2000. 

6. Daron Acemoglu  and  James  Robinson,  Economic  Origins  of  Dictatorship  and 

Democracy, Cambridge University Press,2006. 

7.  Robert  Putnam,  Making  Democracy  Work:  Civic  Traditions  in  Modern  Italy, 

Princeton University Press,1994

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ECO-HE-5016: ECONOMICS OF HEALTH AND EDUCATION

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Readings: 

 

1. William, Jack, Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries, World 

Bank Institute Development Studies, 1999. 

2. World Development Report, Investing in Health, The World Bank,1993. 

3. Ronald G., Ehrenberg and Robert S., Smith,  Modern Labor Economics: Theory 

and Public Policy, Addison Wesley,2005.

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ECO-HE-5026: MONEY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS

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Readings 

1.    F.  S.  Mishkin  and  S.  G.  Eakins,  Financial  Markets  and  Institutions,  Pearson  Education,  6th 

edition, 2009. 

2.    F.  J.  Fabozzi,  F.  Modigliani,  F.  J.  Jones,  M.  G.  Ferri,  Foundations  of  Financial  Markets  and Institutions, Pearson Education, 3rd edition, 2009. 

3.  M. R. Baye and D. W. Jansen, Money, Banking and Financial Markets, AITBS,1996. 

4.  Rakesh Mohan, Growth with Financial Stability- Central Banking in an Emerging 

Market, Oxford University Press, 2011. 

5.    L.  M.  Bhole  and  J.  Mahukud,  Financial  Institutions  and  Markets,  Tata  McGraw  Hill,  5th 

edition, 2011. 

6.  M. Y. Khan, Indian Financial System, Tata McGraw Hill, 7th edition, 2011. 

7.  N. Jadhav, Monetary Policy, Financial Stability and Central Banking in India, 

Macmillan, 2006. 

8.  R.B.I. – Report of the Working Group: Money Supply Analytics and Methodology 

of Compilation, 1998. 

9.  R.B.I. Bulletin, Annual Report and Report on Currency and Finance (latest). 

10.  Sampat Mukherjee, Macro Economics: Global Text, 

11.  S.B.Gupta, Monetary Economics: Institutions, Theory and Policy, S.Chand and Company Ltd., 

2003. 

12.  M.L.Jinghan, Money, Banking, International Trade and Public Finance, Vrinda Publications. 

13.  Bharati  V  Pathak,    Indian  Financial  System:  Markets,  Institutional  and  services,  Pearson 

Education India,3rd edition,2011. 

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ECO-HE-5036: PUBLIC FINANCE

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Readings  

1. Musgrave, R.A. and P.B. Musgrave, Public Finance in Theory and Practice, Mc-Graw 

Hill, 1989. 

2. Mahesh Purohit , “Value Added Tax: Experience of India and Other Countries”, Gayatri 

Publications, 2007. 

3. KaushikBasu, and A. Maertens (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Economics in India, 

Oxford University Press,2007. 

4. M.M Sury, Government Budgeting in India, Commonwealth Publishers, 1990. 

5. Shankar Acharya, “Thirty years of tax reform” in India, Economic and Political Weekly, 

May 2005. 

6. Government of India, Report of the 13th Finance Commission. 

7. Economic Survey, Government of India (latest). 

8. State Finances: A Study of Budgets, Reserve Bank of India (latest).

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