Important Topics in Economy (GS)

Basic Economic Indicators: (Statistical Data)
- National Income
- Production
- Price Index
- Foreign Trade
- Population

Features of Indian Economy
- Division of Economic activities
- Unemployment - Types
- Poverty - HDR - Measures to eliminate poverty

Population
- Population growth
- Population policy 2000
- Census - 2001
- Consumption Pattern - Energy Consumption - Sources of energy - various programmes

National Income
- Methods of National Income calculation
- Concepts of National Income

Agriculture
- Importance
- Crops and seasons
- Agricultural Credit agencies. NABARD, RRB. Etc.,
- Kisan Credit Schemes
- Land Reforms
- Agricultural Insurance, NAIS, Seed Crop Insurance
- Green, Yellow, White, Blue revolutions
- Irrigation projects - Drip irrigation
- Development measures

Industry
- Industrial Policies - 1948,1956,1991 - Initiatives taken
- Small Scale Industries
- Various key industries
- Various Committees and their recommendations
- Industrial sickness
- Dis investment - PSE Policy
- Industrial Finance

Money and Banking
- Aspects of money market
- Credit Control - Various Rates
- Commercial Banks, Co-operatives, NBFC.
- Committees and recommendations
- SEBI - Stock market developments
- Insurance Industry
- New Banking Sector reforms
- Inflation, Deflation
- Money supply measures

Foreign Trade
- Composition and direction
- Exim policy and other Acts
- Foreign Trade improvement measures taken
- WTO
- BOP

International Organisations
Development and employment Programmes

Planning
- Planning Commission
- Five Year Plans and imported features

Public Finance
- Finance Commission
- Various formulas for Plan assistance to states
- Taxation - Reforms
- Public spending and Debt.
- Deficit financing