70th BPSC Prelims Economy Topics
Economy
Bihar Naman GS, Patna
BASIC CONCEPTS
- Macroeconomic Concepts
- Meaning of Economics
- Types of Economies
- Sectors of an Economy
- Other Sectors of Economy
- Microeconomic Concepts
ECONOMIC MEASUREMENTS
- National Income Concepts and Methods of Calculation
- National Income
- Real National Income
- Calculating National Income
- Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF)
- National Organizations Related to National Income Accounts
- Latest India’s National Income Estimates
- New Series of National Statistics (Base Year 2011-12)
- Annual Estimates of Expenditures on GDP
- Per Capita Income
- Purchasing Power Parity
- Lorenz Curve
- Philip’s Curve
- Gini Coefficient
- Inflation
- Concepts and Types of Inflation
- Causes of Inflation
- Effects of Inflation
- Measures of Inflation
- WPI, CPI
- Producer Price Index
- GDP Deflator
- Core Inflation
- Change in Reporting of Inflation
- Measures to Check Inflation??
- Fiscal Measures
- Administrative Measures
- Monentary Measures
- Economic Growth and Development
- Economic Growth
- Economic Development
- Measurement of Economic Development
- Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI)
- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Different Levels of Economic Development
- Economy and Environment?
- Environment Taxes
- Carbon Tax
- Green Accounting
- 12th Five Year Plan and Sustainability
MONEY AND BANKING
- Money Function and Classification
- Money Concept
- Measures of Money Supply in India
- Indian currency system
- Broad and Narrow Money
- Money multiplier
- Digital Money
- New Monetary Aggregates
- Monetary Policy
- Financial Market and its Instruments
- Concept and functions of financial markets
- Importance of money market
- Types of capital market
- Distinguish between capital market and money market
- Nature and functions of a stock exchange
- Advantages of stock exchanges
- Limitations of stock exchanges
- The stock exchanges in India
- Insurance Industry - Insurance Industry and Reforms
- Role of Financial Regulators: SEBI and IRDA
- Banking Structure in India
- Scheduled Commercial Banks
- Nationalized Banks
- Public Sector Banks
- State Bank of India
- Private Banks
- Foreign Banks
- Regional Rural Banks
- Scheduled Co-operative Banks
- Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
- Methods of Credit Control
- Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)
- Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)
- Repo Rate
- Reserve Repo Rate
- Call Rates
- Marginal Standing Facility (MSF)
- Bank Rate
- Banking Sector Reforms in India
- Differentiated Banks
- Payment Banks
- Small Banks
- New banking license
- White Label ATM
- Unified Payments Interface
- Bank Board Bureau
- Marginal Cost of Funds Based Lending Rate (MCLR)
- Priority Sector Lending Certificates
- Concept of Micro ATM
- Banking Reforms
- Basel Norms
- Banking Ombudsman
- Development Financial Institutions
- Insurance Companies
- Recent developments in Economic Sector
- Government to recapitalize the PSB’s
- RBI rule and regulation for peer to peer (P2P) lending
- Domestic Systematically Important Banks (SIBs) of India
- Financial Inclusion in India
- The Concept of Bad Bank
- Alternative Mechanism Panel for PSB consolidation
- Employee Provident Fund of India
- Enforcement Department In RBI
- Gold Monetization Scheme (GMS)
- Indian Post Payment Bank (IPPB)
- Indian Gold Coins/Gold Bullion Scheme
PUBLIC FINANCE IN INDIA
- Budgeting
- Union Budget
- Plan and Non Plan Expenditure
- Revenue Receipts
- Tax Revenue Receipts
- Non-Tax Revenue Receipts
- Fiscal Policy
- Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act, 2003
- Revenue Deficit, Fiscal Deficit, Primary Deficit
- Deficit and Surplus Budget
- Deficit Financing
- Centre State Distribution
- Finance Commission (A280)
- Tax Structure in India
- Tax – Direct Tax, Indirect Tax
- Methods of Taxation – Progressive,
Regressive, Proportional - Value Added Tax – VAT in India
- Goods and Services Tax – GST, GST Council
- Service Tax
- DTC – Direct Tax Code
PLANNING
- Meaning Objectives and History
- Meaning of Economic Planning
- Objectives of Planning
- Strategies of Planning
- Harrod Domar strategy
- Nehru Mahalonobis strategy
- Gandhian strategy
- LPG strategy
- Regional and National Planning
- Imperative and Indicative Planning
- History of Planning in India
- Visvesvaraya Plan, Gandhian Plan FICCI Proposal, Congress Plan Bombay Plan
- Planning Commission and National Development Council(NDC)
- Central Planning – 5 Year Plans, 20 Point Program, MPLADS
- Decentralized Planning
- Planning Institutions
- Planning Commission
- NITI Aayog
- National Development Council (NDC)
- Five Year Plans in India
- 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017)
- Alternative Scenarios During 12th Plan
- Economic Reforms
OPEN ECONOMY
- Foreign Trade Concepts
- Balance of Payments
- Foreign Capital – FDI, FPI, FII, QFH
- Foreign Exchange–Exchange Rate NEER & REER, ETF
- FERA & FEMA
- Capital Account Convertibility in India
- India's External Debt
- NRI Deposits
- Trade Composition
- Trade Policy and Agreements
- Import Cover
- Import/Export Controls
- Foreign Trade policy 2015-20
- Export Promotion
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- Exchange Rate
- Exchange Market
- LERMS
- NEER
- REER
- ETF
- International Organization
- United Nations
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- International Maritime Organization (IMO)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
- Universal Postal Union (UPU)
- World Bank Group (WBG)
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
- International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- International Development Association (IDA)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- Asian Development Bank
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AII)
- New Development Bank
- African Development Bank
- Trade Agreements
- RCEP
- TPP
- NAFTA
- MERCOSUR
- Southern African Development Community (SADC)
- ASEAN
- SAFTA
- Recent Developments in External Sector
- Global foreign exchange committee
- Price capping of medical devices in India
- Review of the International Investment Agreement (IIA)
- India signed the OECD multilateral convention to prevent BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting)
- Second Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Bharat 22
- Double Tax Avoidance Treaty
- Preferential Trade Agreement with Chile
- Advance Pricing Agreement
- National Committee on Trade Facilitation
- E-tourist Visa
- India’s Asylum Policy
- Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)
ECONOMIC SECTORS
- Poverty
- Definition and Indices
- Poverty in India
- Human Poverty Index (HPI)
- Expert Groups for Estimating Poverty
- Inequality
- Employment
- Employment and Unemployment
- Poverty Eradication and Employment Related Related programs
- Government Schemes and Programs
- New Social Welfare Schemes
- Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)
- Other Social Protection Programmes
- Rural Infrastructure and Development
- Urban Infrastructure, Housing and Sanitation
- Education Schemes
- Financial Inclusion Schemes
- Health Schemes
- Women Empowerment Programmes
- Other Women Empowerment Programmes
- Social Security
- Committees
- Ratan P Watal Committee on Digital Payment
- Committee for Market Infrastructure Institution (MII)
- P. J. Nayak Committee
- Deepak Mohanty Committee Report on Medium-term Path on Financial Inclusion
- Narasimham Committee Report on Banking Sector Reforms
- Uday Kotak Committee on Corporate Governance
- Nachiket Mor Committee
- Others Committee
