Probable questions:
- What is the contribution of services sector to India’s economy?
- Do you think India is over-tertiarised?
RAS RAS Lower Subordinate Mains
Public Economics
Public Economics
Study of economic efficiency, distribution and government economic policy.
Developed out of the original political economy of JS Mill and David Ricardo. It is a very important branch of economics because of the foundation it provides for practical policy analysis.
POVERTY
Following elements mainly affect the magnitude of the poverty ration The nutrition norm in the base year Price deflator used to update the poverty line Pro rata adjustment in the number of households in different expenditure classes to determine the number of households below and above poverty line. Agricultural wage earners, small and marginal … Read more
CPI
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) of the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation announced that the new series of Consumer Price Index(CPI) numbers for Rural, Urban and Combined (Rural +Urban) on base 2010 ( January to December)=100 taking all segments of rural and urban population for the month of January, 2011 will be released by the Central Statistics Office for the States/UTs and all- India on 18th February, 2011.These indices will be available for five major groups namely Food, beverages and tobacco; Fuel and light; Housing; Clothing, bedding and footwear, and Miscellaneous.
Micro, Small and Medium enterprises
Importance of micro, small and medium enterprises Apart from playing a significant role in meeting national objectives of balanced growth, poverty alleviation and equity promotion, serve as nurseries for corporate enterprises of future. Financing MSMEs Advantages Loans are priced relatively higher when compared with large corporate, hence the average account profitability percent from the MSME … Read more
Land reforms
In rural India, land is the single most important productive asset owned by the people The basic objective of land reform is to do social justice with the tillers, land owners, landless labourers, and rural community with the set objective to provide security to the cultivators, to fix a rational rent, the conferment of title … Read more
Infrastructure Debt Funds
Infrastructure Debt Funds In Sept 2011, RBI issued guidelines for permitting banks and NBFCs to set up IDFs to help meet long term financing for the sector IDFs would be set up either as MFs or NBFCs NBFC sponsoring IDF-MF should have a minimum net owned funds of Rs 300 crore and CAR of 15 … Read more