Problem Set:
- Students can find a problem set for practice HERE.
Assignments:
- Students have to write ANY ONE Term paper and Present it.
- The Term Paper is due on 11th June, 2018, 12.30 pm IST.
TOPIC: Infrastructure and Economic Development: A Review
OR
Impact of Infrastructure on Indian Economy
- The first topic is a Review paper while the second one is empirical work to be done through collection of data and econometric/statistical exercise.
- Term Papers of each student must be separate and unique, based on the following sectoral assignment:
- Transport Infrastructure - Sanchita
- Electricity Infrastructure - Sanjukta
- Water/Sanitation Infrastructure - Debleena
- Education Infrastructure - Moumita
- Health Infrastructure - Mukur
- Term Paper will count towards Internal Assessment of this paper
Reading List:
Essential:
- World Development Report, 1994
- India Infrastructure Report - Various Years
- Majumder, R. (2008) - Infrastructure and Development in India: Interlinkages and Policy Issues, Rawat
Other Readings:
- The Impact of Infrastructure on Growth in
Developing Countries, Estache and Garsous, 2012, IFC Economics Notes; HERE
- The Output Cost of of Latin America's Infrastructure Gap, César Calderón and Luis Servén, Central Bank of Chile Working Papers No 186, 2002; HERE
- Hulten, C., and A. Isaksson (2007).
Why Development Levels Differ: The Sources of Differential Economic Growth in a
Panel of High and Low Income Countries. NBER Working Paper No. 13469.
Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research; HERE
- Infrastructure Services In Developing Countries: Access, Quality, Costs and
Policy Reforms, C. Briceño-Garmendia, A. Estache, N. Shafik, World Bank Policy
Research Working Paper 3468, December 2004; HERE
- Infrastructure, Growth, and Inequality: An
Overview, César Calderón and Luis Servén, World Bank Policy Research Working
Paper 7034, 2014; HERE
- Emerging Infrastructure Policy Issues in Developing Countries: A Survey of the Recent Economic Literature, Antonio Estache, Background Paper for the October 2004 Berlin meeting of the POVNET Infrastructure Working Group, World bank; 2004
- Rao, V.K.R.V (1981) 'Infrastructure
and Economic Development', Commerce, Annual Number, Vol.141, No.3628, p.9
- Infrastructure and Poverty, Louis Pouliquen, WDR 2000 Background Papers; HERE
- Poverty and Inequality in India: The Role of Infrastructure, Asian Economic Review, Vol 55, No 3, 2013; A previous version HERE
- Infrastructure, Geographical
Disadvantage, and Transport Costs, Nuno Limao and Anthony Venables, World Bank
Policy Research Working Paper 2257, 1999; HERE
Transport Infrastructure
- Rodrigue, J-P et al. (2018) The Geography of Transport Systems HERE
Social Infrastructure
- Union Budget of India 2016-17, Ch 10; HERE
