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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesDhanamanjuri University, Imphal

    The Syllabus

    • Development Economics: An Introduction 
    • Inequality and Poverty
    • Economic Growth
    • Alternative Measures of Economic Development

    • Income and Basic need approach
    • Capability approach and core values of development
    • Health and Wealth
    • Construction and Interpretation of HDI, GDI and PQLI

    • Green GDP, Happiness Index, Inclusive Wealth Index
    • Development trajectories across nations
    • Underdeveloped economies: Characteristics and challenges
    • Regional disparity

    • Looking to the future: Through the lens of political economy
    • Economic Growth -Theories Models And Reality
    • Classical growth theory
    • Rostow’s stages of economic growth

    • Harrod’s Questions and Harrod Domar Model
    • Solow Swan Model
    • Diagrammatic analysis of the Solow-Swan Model
    • Effect of Technological progress and change in saving rate in Solow model

    • Golden rule of capital accumulation
    • Neutral technological change and their representation in growth model
    • Endogenous Growth theory

    • Conditional convergence
    • Externalities, technical progress and growth
    • Total factor productivity

    • Kenneth Arrow: Learning by Doing
    • Measures of poverty
    • Economic Inequality

    • Inequality axioms and Lorenz curve
    • Complete measures of inequality
    • Inequality and development

    • Inequality in the long run
    • Functional impact of poverty
    • Economic characteristics of poverty groups

    • Poverty traps
    • Policy options
    • New Institutional Economics

    • The rise of substantivism and the formalist response
    • State versus Market
    • Institutions and economic growth: Need for developing effective institutions and evidence from natural experiments

    • Institutions and economic growth: Democracy, the quality of governance, rent seeking, trust, corruption and growth.
    • Other determinants of growth: trade and geography.
    • Different measures of institutions

    • Democracy and economic development
    • Role of market and market failure
    • Role of state

    • Regulations and regulatory authority
    • Why some nations are rich and others poor
    • Developmnet of  Northeast India

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