Reference No: ECO0314TECPages: 8 Published on: 1, January, 1989
Abstract: The note provides time series data on some important macro-economic variables that are useful for students of international banking and finance. Such data are included for both, the world as a whole as well as India, and comparison and brief analysis of them has been attempted. ... More
Reference No: ECO0307TECPages: 13Published on: 1, January, 1986
Abstract: The note discusses various methods for estimating an economic function and the uses of an estimated demand function for managerial decision making. In particular, time series data for groundnut oil is used, and the regression method is explained in detail ... More
Reference No: ECO0328TECPages: 12 Published on: 1, January, 1992
Abstract: The note provides a brief review of Indian planning, and the data on various economic and social indicators in the country. In particular, it discusses the objectives, the strategy, financial resources and their mobilization, and the achievements and failures of economic planning in India.
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Reference No: ECO0327TECPages: 10Published on: 1, January, 1992
Abstract: The note discusses: (a) various income concepts such as GNP, GDP, National Income, Private Income, Personal Income, and Personal Disposable Income, and highlights their differences as well as differences between real and nominal incomes; (b) various economic units and circular flow of income among them; (c) various approaches to the ... More
Reference No: ECO0343EXPages: 9Published on: 31, January, 2002
Abstract: The case provides time series data on significant macroeconomic variables for the G-7 and a few other selected countries. In particular, information is available to analyse the causes of and the roles of stabilisation policies during the Great Depression, Stagflation, Globalisation, and the recent Recession. The case offers good material ... More
Reference No: ECO0332TECPages: 6Published on: 1, January, 1993
Abstract: In this note the macro-economic identities relevant to an open economy are built up, and represented diagrammatically, for easy understanding and conceptualisation. ... More
Reference No: ECO0349TECPages: 10Published on: 27, December, 2005
Abstract: The reading discuses the role of state intervention through macroeconomic and industrial policies in the remarkable growth experienced by most East Asian countries in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, state policies crated a bias in favor of experts and import substitutes and hence contributed significantly toward the economic growth of ... More
Reference No: ECO0346TECPages: 20Published on: 18, March, 2002
Abstract: While the Indian economic reforms initiated 1991 were mandated by a crisis, their continuance by the successive non-Congress governments is not easily explained. This note attempts to understand the socio-political back drop of economic realities to explore the nature of the economic growth of Independent India, and argues that the economic ... More
Reference No: ECO0276TECPages: 12Published on: 1, January, 1981
Abstract: The purpose of this note is to indicate the use of aggregate demand and supply curves in analyzing the impact of monetary and fiscal policies in aggregate price and output in a simple static macroeconomic model. ... More
Reference No: ECO0253TECPages: 17Published on: 1, January, 1977
Abstract: Fiscal policy has been one of the major instruments for achieving economic stability in the developed countries since 1930. In the developing countries, fiscal policy aims not only at economic stability but also at rapid economic growth.This note is divided into two sections. Section I reviews the role of fiscal ... More
Reference No: ECO0260TECPages: 14 Published on: 1, January, 1979
Abstract: The note discusses industrial policy in India with reference to the three policy resolutions (1948, 1956 and 1977). Industrial policy is examined against the background of economic policy and its broad objectives. Towards the end, questions are raised in the area of evaluating industrial development. Statistical tables relating to industrial development in India ... More
Reference No: ECO0209TECPages: 7 Published on: 1, January, 1976
Abstract: The note describes various concepts of economies of scale, sources of economies and diseconomies of scale, and discusses various methods of measuring economies of scale on the basis of empirical data, viz. survivor technique, long run cost curves method, and engineering method. The methods involve the estimation of the relationship ... More
Reference No: ECO0224TECPages: 7 Published on: 1, January, 1976
Abstract: The note describes how Marx related simple economic concepts to the analysis of the process of development under capitalism. He pointed out that the capitalist system would develop certain internal contradictions, ultimately resulting in the collapse of the system itself, and giving way to socialism. The note includes explanation of ... More
Reference No: ECO0227TECPages: 8Published on: 1, January, 1976
Abstract: Prior to the Second World War, planning experience was confined primarily to the Soviet Union. Since then a number of countries with differing political backgrounds have resorted to economic planning as an instrument to promote economic development. Thus enriched by the experience of various countries, "techniques of planning" have become ... More
