Formal Lectures 1 and 2: Date 6th August
2012
Topic: Introducing the Subject and Course outline to
Students
Venue: Room No-104 Faculty Offices
(All the articles cited here will be supplied by the
Class Teacher)
Dear Students, in the first couple of classes, I will know
more about you and shall let you know more about the course. Whatever, I have
discussed with you is outlined as below.
(1) About the Students of the batch: I would like to know
more about you so that I can plan my modules and decide on topics for the guest
lecturers. Here, I would like to know more about your personal
(academic) background, professional engagement
of your family, academic orientation towards issues, things that attract
you, your hobbies, your extracurricular interests, your hobbies and your career
plans after pursuing your masters degree.
(2) Course Evaluation Process: You have a centralised
written examination system for the course along with an internal assessment
process which is a continuous evaluation process through assignments and class performance. The
centralised written examination system will hold two examinations. One, in the
month of September (last week) with 30 marks. Second, the final examination in
November with 50 marks. The internal assessment will be done through four
assignments of 4 marks each and 4 marks for your performance in classroom and
off-classroom activities.
(3) Group Discussion: The
group discussions we shall have today on different issues areas below. My
purpose is to gather your views on the following on the basis of your past
education.
i. Logic (deductive, Inductive)
ii. Dialectics
iii. Materialism
iv. Leakages: corruption forms and effects
v. Growth and Development
vi. Drivers of growth
vii. Sectors of growth
viii. Poverty and inequality
ix. Population and Development
x. Education and development
xi. Health and development
xii. Role of State in Development
xiii. Role of Market in Development
xiv. Migration and Development
xv. Resource Allocation
xvi. Economic Wellbeing
xvii. Major Data Sources
(4) The Four
Assignments through the Semester are
i. Assignment-1: Group Assignment (All Students in a
group)
Revisiting empirics of economic growth; Relevancy of exogenous growth models
in contemporary world.
Reading: Mankiw, Gregory, David
Romer and David Weil (1992), "A Contribution to theEmpirics of Economic Growth", Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 407-438.http://lokkatha.com/Files_For_Download/02%20Converge%20Mankiw&Romer&Weil-QJE1992.pdf
Task: The students are required
to go through the literature and on the basis of data available through World
Development Indicators (WDI-2012) study the relations. The outcomes of the
exercise is to be presented in a class seminar. (Knowledge of elementary
econometrics such as OLS required to complete the task) 4 Marks
ii. Assignment-2: Individual Assignment
Demographic Transitions:
All the students are required to write the assignment in the form of an article
to be published on http://lokkatha.com
In this
assignment, students are to study the population data on one country and
prepare a write up on the demographic transition of that country. Each student
will have different countries to work on.
The task would
involve data mining, analysis and presentation skills through excel (or any
other spreadsheet) and some skills in graphics.
Data Source:
Student Collected
Sample
Assignment by Previous Year Students: Republic of China: A Demographic Profileby Pooja (MA Economics, 2011 Batch)
iii. Assignment-3: Individual Assignment
Inequality: All
the students are required to write the assignment in the form of an article to
be published on http://lokkatha.com
In this
assignment, students are to study the data on inequality in one Indian State and
prepare a write up on inequality of that state vis-à-vis the country. Each
student will have different states to work on.
The task would
involve data mining, analysis and presentation skills through excel (or any
other spreadsheet) and some skills in graphics.
Data Source:
NSSO
Sample
Assignment by Previous Year Students: Inequality: A Comparative Analysis ofIndia and Uttarakhand by Charu Kaur (MA Economics, 2011 Batch)
iv. Assignment-4: Group Assignment (4 groups with 2
students in a group)
This assignment
would involve a review of literature by 4 groups to be written and presented by
the group in class seminar. The broad topics are as under.
(a) Agricultural Market in India
(b) Labour issues in India
(c) Credit Markets in Agriculture
(d) Land Relations (Contracts / Ownerships) in India
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