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ECO-HC-6016: INDIAN ECONOMY-II
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Unit-1: Macroeconomic Policies and their impact

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Unit 2: Policies and performance in Agriculture 

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Unit 3: Policies and performance in industry

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Unit 4: Trends and performance in servivces

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ECO-HC-6026: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
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Unit 1: Demography and Development

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Unit 2: Land, Labor and Credit Markets 

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Unit 3: Individuals, Communities and Collective Outcomes

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Unit 4: Environment and Sustainable Development

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Unit 5: Globalization

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Readings: 
1. Shankar Acharya, 2010,―Macroeconomic Performanceand Policies 2000-8,ǁin 
Shankar  Acharya and Rakesh Mohan, editors,  India’s Economy: Performances 
and Challenges: Development and Participation, Oxford University Press. 
2. Rakesh  Mohan,  2010,―India‘sFinancial  Sector  and  Monetary  Policy  Reforms,ǁin 
Shankar  Acharya  and  Rakesh  Mohan,  editors,  India’s Economy:Performances 
and Challenges: Development and Participation, Oxford UniversityPress. 
3. Pulapre Balakrishnan, Ramesh  Golait and Pankaj  Kumar, 2008,―Agricultural 
Growth in India Since 1991, RBI DEAP Study no.27. 
4. B.N.  Goldarand  S.C.  Aggarwal,  2005,―Trade  Liberalisation  and  Price-Cost 
Margin in Indian Industries, The Developing Economics,September. 
5. P. Goldberg, A. Khandelwal, N. Pavcnikand P. Topalova, 2009,―Trade 
Liberalisation and New Imported Inputs, The American Economic Review, Papers 
and Proceedings, May. 
6. KunalSen, 2010,―Trade,Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial 
Transformation in India, ïn Premachandra Athukorala, editor, The Rise of Asia, 
Routledge. 
7. A.Ahsan, C.Pages and T. Roy, 2008,―Legislation, Enforcement and Adjudication 
18 in  Indian  Labour  Markets:  Origins,  Consequences  and  the  Way  Forward,  in  D. 
Mazumdar and S. Sarkar, editors, Globalization, Labour Markets and Inequality 
in India, Routledge. 
8. Dipak Mazumdar and Sandeep Sarkar, 2009,―The Employment Problem in India 
and the Phenomenon of the  ̳Missing Middleǁ, Indian Journal of Labour 
Economics. 
9. J.  Dennis  Rajakumar,  2011,―Sizeand  Growth of  Private  Corporate  Sector  in 
Indian Manufacturing, Economic and Political Weekly,April. 
10. Ramesh Chand, 2010, ―Understanding the Nature and Causes of Food Inflation,ǁ 
Economic and Political Weekly, February. 
11. Bishwanath Goldar, 2011,―Organised Manufacturing Employment: Continuing 
the Debate, Economic and Political Weekly,April.
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ECO-HC-6026: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS-II
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Readings 
 
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ECO-HE-6016: ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
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Readings: 
 
4. Maureen L. Cropper and Wallace E. Oates, 1992, ―Environmental Economics: A 
Survey, ǁ Journal of Economic Literature, Volume 30:675-740. 
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ECO-HE-6026: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 
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ECO-HE-6036: THE ECONOMY OF ASSAM 
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Readings: 
Atul  Goswami  "Assam's  Industrial  Development:  Urgency  of  New  Direction",  Economic  and 
Political Weekly 1981 
Department of Economics, Gauhati University, “Identity Aspirations, Developmental Backlogs and 
Governance Issues in Northeast India” Maliyata Offset Press, Mirza, 2016 
Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of Assam, “Economic Survey Assam” [recent 
issues] https://des.assam.gov.in/information-services/economic-survey-assam 
Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of Assam, “Statistical Handbook of Assam” 
2018 or later addition 
Guha, Amalendu, Planter’s Raj to Swaraj, Second Edition (paperback) 
India  Brand  Equity  Foundation  “About  Assam:  Tourism,  Industries  In  Assam,  Agriculture, 
Economy & Geography”, June 2020,  https://www.ibef.org/states/assam.aspx  
J B Ganguli, "Economic Conditions and Change in North-East India" in A.P. Singha (ed) Changing 
North East India, Ludhiana: Gagan Publishers, 1986 
J N Sarma, “Problems of Economic Development in Assam" Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 
1, No. 7, Pp. 281+283-286.   
Planning  and  Development  Department,  Government  of  Assam  “Assam  Human  Development 
Report 2014”
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