India's Economic Policy 2100-MON-PGIN-OG

Course unit outline (may be modified depending on students' choice of presentation topics):
1. organizational activities
o Discussion of the credit requirements
o Literature
o Programme presentation
2. economic policy - basic concepts & introduction to the Indian economy
o Macro- and micro-economic policies, functions of the state in the economy;
o Specifics of the Indian economy;
o India as a developing country.
3. Elements of economic history and challenges of Indian development
o India before colonization;
o India's economy under the British Empire.
o India's economy after independence
o Liberalization of the economic and financial system in India after 1991
o India as a developing state
o India as a developmental state
4 Public finance in India
o The Union budget and state budgets
o Fundamentals of India's tax system
o Public debt and methods of financing the public deficit
5. India's monetary and exchange rate policies
o RBI - history and specifics
o Relationship between fiscal and monetary policy
o Exchange rate and international importance of the Indian rupee
o Elements of India's banking system
o Alternatively:
- Part of the class in the form of a presentation
6. social and demographic policies of India
o Birth control regulation
- Evolution of anti-natalist policies
- The issue of elective abortions
o The problem of poverty in India
o The social security system
o Alternatively:
- Part of the class in the form of a presentation
7. agriculture in India
o Green revolution
o Food security in India
o Agrarian reforms
o Agricultural financing
Problems of agriculture in India
o Alternatively:
- Part of the class in the form of a presentation
8. Indian industrial policy
o Industrial policy since the 1980s and problems of privatization in India
o Industrial clusters
o Promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises
o Indian multinationals
o Selected manufacturing sectors in India and government support
o Alternatively:
- Part of the class in the form of a presentation
9 India's trade and investment policies
o Indian protectionism & economic nationalism
o Narendra Modi and “Make in India”
o FDI in Indiao India's FDI
o Trade agreements and their impact on the Indian economy
Alternatively:
- Part of the class in the form of a presentation
10. India in international economic organizations
o India in the institutions of the multilateral global economic governance system (multilateral global economic governance)
- WTO (including India's proposal for WTO reform)
- Cooperation with the IMF, the World Bank Group and the Financial Stability Board
o India as a recipient and donor of development assistance
o India vis-à-vis the Sustainable Development Goals and climate change
o India in integration groupings
o Alternatives:
- Part of the class in the form of a presentation