BECC-111 EM (2024-25)

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BECC-111 Solved Assignment English Medium 2024-25

BA Economics (Honours) (BAECH)
ASSIGNMENT 2024-25
For July 2024 and January 2025 Admission cycle
COURSE CODE: BECC-111
Indian Economy-I

BECC-111: INDIAN ECONOMY-I
Tutor Marked Assignments
Course Code: BECC-111
Assignment Code: BECC-111/AST/TMA/2024-25
Total Marks: 100
Note: Answer all the questions
Section A
Long Answer Questions (word limit-500 words) 2×20=40 marks
1. How is development different from growth? Explain various approaches to development.
2. Distinguish between absolute poverty and relative poverty. What are the major factors that have been taken into account in the approaches to estimate poverty in India? In what way they have changed over time?

Section B
Medium Answer Questions (word limit-250 words) 3×10=30 marks
3. What are the major constraints to ‘infrastructure development’ in terms of good governance and institutions in India? In particular, what factors are identified to come in the way of modernisation of ports/airports?
4. When a country does signify to have entered a phase of ‘demographic dividend’? What are its implications for economic planning?
5. What are the three sub-components of under-nutrition? How are they measured?

Section C
Short Answer Questions (word limit-100 words) 5X6 marks=30 marks
6. What is meant by a Balance of Payments (BOP) of a country? Why is it preferable to liberalise ‘current account’ of BOP before its ‘capital account’?
7. How is Human Capital defined? How is Human Development different from Human Capital?
8. Would you say that the expansion in the education sector has kept pace with the requirements of the economy? Why?
9. Distinguish between physical and social infrastructures.
10. In what way do DBT aims at revolutionising the antipoverty programmes in India?

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