Tuesday, April 10, 2018

MPhil - Infrastructure & Development

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:
  1. Transport Infrastructure - Sanchita
  2. Electricity Infrastructure - Sanjukta
  3. Water/Sanitation Infrastructure - Debleena
  4. Education Infrastructure - Moumita
  5. 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

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