This course highlightsthe main features and challenges of India's economic development since independence, using various analytical tools and frameworks. It covers topics such as growth, structural change, savings, investment, population, human development, poverty, inequality, unemployment and international comparison. The course aims to provide a comprehensive and critical understanding of India's economic trajectory and policy debates in a changing global context. This is a 55-modulecourse with 4 different units covering the different issues of Indian economy after independent. The 55 modules of this course will be delivered over a period of 15 weeks roughly covering the working days of a semester.This course is designed by experts in the field of Indian Economy and delivered by eminent Economists and Professors from reputed Universities and Colleges. Each module has the following four quadrants: · A video of the lecture of roughly 25 minutes duration delivered by the faculty.· An in depth write up of the same topic [Academic Script],· References for further study.· MCQs for self -assessment, exploratory exercises for discussion in blogs and assignments for evaluation by faculty. Students are also provided with FAQ, Glossary, Assignments to master the subject. In order to assimilate the topic in a perfect manner, the student is expected to devote two hours and will adhere to the submission deadline of the assignment provided by the faculty. Thus like all other MOOCs, this particular MOOC is a self-learning module and the students are expected to devote 10 hours approximately per week, which will include thorough understanding of the module, participation in the discussion with the subject expert and also going through the list of papers and other references.
Overview
Syllabus
Core Papers
Final Module No
Lectures Included
Unit 1:
20 Modules
Unit 1 : Economic Development since Independence
1
Major Features of Indian Economy at Independence
2
Planning: Development Goals
3
Planning: Development Strategies
4
Gandhian and Nehruvian Models of Development: Comparison and Contrast
5
Models of Economic Development-LPG and Macroeconomic Implications
6
Agricultural Development in India since Independence: An Overview
7
Planning and Industrial Policy
8
Industrial Development during Plan Period
9
Planning: Evolution of India’s development goals and strategies
10
Performance of Public Sector
11
Privatization and Economic Reforms
12
Structural constraints and Indian development strategy
13
Import substitution vs. Export promotion
14
Growth and development under different policy regimes
15
Regional Imbalances in India
16
India's Performance on Sustainable Development Goals of India
17
Structural changes in Indian Economy
18
Savings and investment
19
Impact of COVID-19 on India's GDP and recovery
20
India: The Next Economic Superpower?
Unit 2 : Population and Human Development
Unit 2:
13 Modules
21
Three Stages of Demographic Transition
22
Demographic Trends in India
23
Causes of Rapid of Growth of Population
24
Population and Economic Development
25
India’s Population Policy
26
Education Policy
27
Education and Development of Human Resource
28
National Health Policy
29
Health and Family Welfare
30
Development of health infrastructure
31
Status of Nutritional Insecurity
32
State Hunger Index in India
33
ICDS and Its Impact on Child Nutritional Status
Unit 3 : Growth and Distribution
Unit 3:
13 Modules
34
Approaches to measure poverty
35
Estimates of Poverty
36
Trends of poverty
37
Multidimensional poverty in India: patterns of reduction across population subgroups
38
Inequality and it’s measurement
39
Trend of Inequality
40
Evolution of PDS
41
Policies and Programmes to Reduce Poverty and Inequality
42
Growth and poverty
43
Growth in Employment, GDP and Employment Elasticity
44
Unemployment and its Trend
45
MGNREGA
46
Schemes to reduce unemployment
Unit 4 : International Comparisons
Unit 4:
9 Modules
47
Human Development Index (HDI): India vis-à-vis other countries
48
Global Hunger Index (GHI): India vis-à-vis other countries
49
Inequality: India vis-à-vis other countries
50
Multidimensional Poverty: India vis-a-vis developing countries
51
Women Empowerment: A Comparative Study among the SAARC Countries
52
Social Protection of India Compared to other Countries
53
India and China
54
International Comparison Program (ICP): India vis-à-vis other countries
55
Towards achieving SDGs: India vis-à-vis other countries
Taught by
Prof. Pinaki Das
