Manipur Board 12th Syllabus for Economics

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Important Topics

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PART – I: Macro Economics

Introduction

  • Macroeconomics

  • Some basic concepts of macroeconomics Business Cycle

  • Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Consumption Goods, Capital Goods, Final Goods, Intermediate Goods, Stocks and Flows Gross Investment and Depreciation

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National Income and Related Aggregates: Basic Concepts and Measurement

  • Product method, Expenditure method, Income method.

  • Concepts and aggregates related to National Income: Gross National Product (GNP), Net National Product (NNP), etc.

  • Personal Income and Personal Disposable Income; Real and Nominal GDP; GDP and Welfare.

  • Simple Numerical Examples.

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Theory of Income and Employment: Basic Concepts and Determination of Income and Employment.

  • Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply and their components.

  • Consumption Function and Investment Function

  • Propensity to Consume and Propensity to Save, Equilibrium Output, Types of Unemployment.

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Money and Banking

  • Money – Meaning, Functions, and types.

  • Supply of money

  • Money and Credit Creation by Commercial banks.

  • Central bank – Meaning and Functions.

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Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy and Government Budget

  • Monetary Policy – Meaning, types and tools.

  • Fiscal Policy – Meaning, types and tools.

  • Government budget

  • Classification of expenditure – revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.

  • Various measures of government deficit – revenue deficit, fiscal deficit, primary deficit; their meaning and implications.

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PART – II: Indian Economic Development

Introduction

  • Parameters of Development

  • Brief introduction of the state of the Indian economy on the eve of independence.

  • Main features, problems and policies of Agriculture and Foreign Trade.

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Structural Changes in the Indian Economy After Liberalization

  • Meaning, Need, Significance and Features of Liberalization, Globalization

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Current Challenges facing Indian Economy

  • Poverty – absolute and relative; Main programmes for poverty alleviation: A critical assessment

  • Rural development

  • Human Capital Formation

  • Growth of Education Sector in India.

  • Informal Economy

  • Sustainable Economic Growth: Meaning, Effects of Economic Development on Resources and Environment.

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Planning and Economic Development in India

  • Objectives, Targets, Achievements and drawbacks of different Five Year Plans in India (A brief account).

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Economic Growth and Development

  • Economic Growth and Development-Meaning and Difference

  • Comparative study of

  • India and China on the following indicators : (i) Unemployment, (ii) GDP growth, etc.

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