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

Friday, April 14, 2017

Public Economics

Public Economics (JR)
 4th Semester 2017

Tax Equity : Handouts & Sample Questions  
Tax Incidence  
Sample Question 1
Taxation & Efficiency 
Public Debt  
Fiscal Federalism

Readings : Public Finance - Musgrave & Musgrave
              Text :     Public Finance by A. Ghosh 
                            Stiglitz : Public Sector Economics

Follow Class Notes for all the topics covered in the classes along with text books/ references/ handouts.

Students are recommended  to follow this post frequently to get updates regarding the course taken by Jhilam Ray

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

To the students of Outgoing 4th Semester 2014-16 session



My dear students,
 After being together for two years, the department formally bids you farewell today. As you go out into the big, bad world outside the serene and green Golapbag campus, I share my thoughts with you.

I have no reservation in commenting that this is the best batch I have had over the last decade. (May be the current 2nd semester students will force me to repeat this line next year too!!)

Not all of you are cut out for academics no doubt, but then different people are made for different things in life. What strikes me is that almost all of you have shown a keen interest to participate, to engage and to learn things, both inside and outside your curricula. What pleased me even more was you attachment among yourselves and also with the department and the Institution. The cultural performances that you put up over the last two years on several occasions led us to believe that you can excel in this area too. There are natural leaders and you can work as a team – traits that are required in today’s world.

My best wishes for whatever you do in future. You can call upon my cooperation and guidance for any positive endeavour. Remember, successful people are those who find out very early in life what they are good at and pursue that course.

What would be you clarion call when you go out into life’s battlefield? I have a suggestion: Liye sapne nigahon mein, chala hoon teri rahon mein, Zindagi aa raha hun main . . . . . . . .  

 Your RM-Sir.
 

Friday, June 24, 2016

Climate and Rural Development

References for Climate Change and Rural Development:

** Climate Change and Agriculture: A Review of Impacts and Adaptations (Page 1-26) Download Here


Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture Download Here

Impact of Climate Change on Indian Agriculture Download Here

** Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods and Agriculture Download Here

Monday, April 25, 2016

PUBLIC FINANCE : 4th Semester
(JR)

Handouts  1 Download 

Sample Question 1 Download 
Sample Question 2 Download  
Sample Question New Download 

Readings : Public Finance - Musgrave & Musgrave
                   Public Finance by A. Ghosh 

Students are recommended  to follow this post frequently to get updates regarding the course taken by Jhilam Ray. 

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Development Economics ECN 203 Group A

Rajarshi M will post updates on this page for the topics taught by him. Students are advised to keep watching regularly.We are starting from Topic 2 in course outline as Topic 1 has already been covered in 1st Semester.

Topic 2
Rural Urban Migration and Wage Gap:

Migration Equilibrium Model - reference - DOWNLOAD

Labour Turnover Model - reference - DOWNLOAD

Also read "Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited" by Kaushik Basu, MIT Press; and, "Development Economics" by Debraj Ray, OUP

Topic 3
Social Sector:

Education - references A. - DOWNLOAD
                                     B. - DOWNLOAD
                                     C. - DOWNLOAD

Health - reference - DOWNLOAD