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Quick Facts

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

Important dates

Course Commencement Date

Start Date : 13 Jan, 2025

End Date : 30 Apr, 2025

Enrollment Date

End Date : 28 Feb, 2025

Certificate Exam Date

Start Date : 17 May, 2025

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

Instructors

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