The Economics of Development and Planning / R. K.Lekhi

Section-I: Basic concepts of economic development;
1. Economic development: problems and measurement;
2. Main obstacles of economic development;
3. Pre-requisite for economic development;
4. Factors governing economic development;
5. Under development and basic characteristics of under development countries;
6. Economic development - A universal outlook;
7. Economic growth of advanced nations;
8. Historic growth and contemporary development;
9. Diverse structure and common characteristics of developing nations;
10. Socio-economies issues of development;
11. Features of modern economic growth;
12. Colonialism and underdevelopment of the Indian economy;
13. Nature of indian economy;
Section-II: General theories of economic development;
1. The classical theory of development;
2. Karl Marx's theory of economic development;
3. The schumpeter's theory;
4. Rostow's stages of economic growth;
5. The keynesian theory;
6. Nelsons low level equilibrium trap;
7. Leibenstein's theory of critical minimum effort;
8. Myrdal's theory of backwash effects;
9. The theory of balanced growth;
10. The theory of unbalanced growth;
11. The big push theory;
12. Dualistic theories;
13. Lewis theory of unlimited supplies of labour;
14. Haris and todarro on migration and development;
15. Hansen's theory of secular stagnation;
16. Swan's growth model;
Section-III: MOdels of economic growth;
1. The harrod-domar model;
2. Kaldor's model of income distribution;
3. Kaldor model of growth;
4. Joan robinson's model of economic growth;
5. Meade's model of economic growth;
6. Solow's model;
7. Models of technical change;
8. Steady state growth;
9. The pasinetti model of profit and growth;
10. The Fel'dman model;
11. Mahalanobis model;
12. Schultz'z transformation of traditional agriculture;
13. The fei and ranis model of economic growth;
14. Todaro's model of rural urban migration and unemployment;
15.Little mirrlees and unido approach to project evaluation;
16. Two gap model;
17. Prebisch model;
18. Gerschenkron's great sput theory;
Section: IV: Internal and external resources for economic development;
1. Capital formation and economic development;
2. Population and economic development;
3. Human capital formation and economic development;
4. The Theory of disguised unemployment and capital formation;
5. Institutional structure and economic development;
6. Role of inflation in economic development;
7. Enterpreneurship and economic development;
8. Technology and economic development;
9. Role of state in economic development;
10. Foreign trade and economic development;
11. Foreign capital and economic development;
12. Monetary policy and economic development;
13. Fiscal policy and economic development;
14. Commercial policy and economic development;
Section-V: Economic planning and techniques;
1. Introduction to economic planning;
2. Types of planning;
3. Input output analysis;
4. Linear programming;
5. Projected evaluation and cost benefit analysis;
6. Capital output ratio;
7. Investment criteria in economic development;
8. Shadow prices or accounting and planning;
9. The choice of technique;
10. Role of price mechanism and price policy in a developing economy;
11. Manpower planning;
Section-VI: Planning in India;
1. Development of planning in India;
2. Main objectives and evaluation of planning;
3. Strategy of planning;
4. Plan models in India plans;
5. Mobilization of resources for Indian plans;
6. Investment pattern in Indian plans;
7.Agriculture development under plans;
8. Industrial development under plans;
9. Ninth five year plan (1997-2002);
10. Tenth five year plan (2002-03 to 2000-02)
Section-VII: Development problems:
1. Public sector in India;
2. Industrial policy statements in India;
3. Balanced regional development and regional disparities;
4. Monopoly and concentration of economic powers and MRTP act;
5. Price behaviour under plans;
6. Inequalities of income and poverty alleviation programmes;
7. Population problems and policy;
8. Problem of unemployment;
9. Foreign capital and multi-national corporations;
10. Foreign trade and balance of payments in India;
11. Parallel economy;
12. Industrial sickness;
13. Privatisation;
14. GATT and dunkel proposal;
15. New economic reforms;
16.Development of human resources;
17. Development of infrastructure in India;