Note :-

1. Duration of Paper: 3 Hours
2. All Questions carry equal marks.
3. Medium of Competitive Exam: Bilingual in English & Hindi
4. There will be Negative Marking.
5. Objective type paper .

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Syllabus : Economics-II

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UNIT I: Indian Economy

1. Economic Growth in India
   1. Pattern and structure
2. Problems of Indian economy
   1. Poverty
   2. Unemployment
   3. Inflation
   4. Regional disparities
3. Characteristics of Indian Population and Population Policy
4. Food security in India
5. Inclusive growth
6. Agriculture development and policies
7. Agriculture Credit in India
   1. Kisan Credit Card
   2. Micro Finance Programme- SHG and Bank Linkage Programme
   3. National Agricultural Insurance Scheme
8. Industrial development and policies
9. Service Sector Growth
10. Economic Reforms in India
11. Financial sector reforms
12. RBI and monetary policy
13. Demonetization
14. Impact of covid-19 on Indian Economy
15. Global Economic recession and its impact on Indian economy
16. Foreign trade
    1. Trends
    2. Composition
    3. Direction
17. India's Balance of Payment position in recent years
18. WTO: issues and its impacts on Indian economy
19. Evolution of Niti Aayog
20. Major flagship programmes of Indian Government
21. Migration- policy issues
22. Globalization and trade policy
23. Rural development programmes
24. Bilateral Trade agreement and their implications on India

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UNIT II: Quantitative Techniques

1. Diagrammatical, Graphical & tabular representation of data
2. Measures of Central tendency
3. Dispersion
4. Skewness and Kurtosis
5. Simple Correlation
6. Partial and Multiple co-relation
7. Time Series
   1. Components of Time Series
8. Regression Analysis
9. Probability
   1. Definition
   2. Theorems of addition and multiplication
   3. Conditional probability
   4. Bayes Theorem
10. Binomial, Poisson and Normal distributions
11. Sampling techniques
12. Estimation
    1. Properties of good estimator
    2. Point and Interval estimation
    3. Types of errors
    4. Level of significance and power of test
13. Hypothesis testing
    1. Z test
    2. t test
    3. chi-square test
    4. F tests
14. Association of attributes
15. Analysis of Variance
16. Matrices
17. Determinants
18. Differentiation
    1. Simple and partial differentiation
19. Integration
    1. Their applications in Economics
    2. Indefinite and definite integration
20. Unconstrained and constrained optimization
21. Linear Programming
22. Game Theory
23. Input-Output analysis

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UNIT III: Public Economics and International Economics

1. Social, merit, mixed, club goods
2. Public expenditure
   1. Wiseman-Peacock hypothesis
   2. Leviathan Hypothesis
   3. Niskanen Model
   4. Public- Choice Theory
3. Public revenue
   1. Principle
   2. Effects
4. Taxation
   1. Incidence
   2. Impact and effects of taxation
5. Problem of double taxation
6. Elasticity and buoyancy of taxes
7. Problem of Tax Evasion and Parallel Economy in India
8. Tax reforms, GST and its implication for India
9. Issues of subsidies in India
10. Public debt
    1. Sources
    2. Burden
    3. Effects and its management
11. Centre-State financial relations
12. Fiscal policy
    1. Neutral
    2. Compensatory
    3. Functional Finance
13. Public Enterprises and Public Utilities
14. Concept of budget deficits
15. Theories of international trade
    1. Comparative cost
    2. Opportunity costs
16. Heckscher-Ohlin theory
17. Factor Price Equalization Theorem
18. Terms of trade
19. Balance of payments