Syllabus of MA Economics Allahabad University

Hello sir I have applied for the University of Allahabad PGAT M.A. Economics Entrance Exam and want to get the syllabus of it for the preparation of exam so can you please provide me this?

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Syllabus of University of Allahabad PGAT M.A. in Economics Entrance Exam
Part-A
Economic Theory
• Consumers’ Behavior
• Theory of Production
• Price Theory
• Factor Pricing
Macro Economics
• National Income, its measurement and limitations, nature of National Income accounts in closed and open economies
• Uses of National Income Analysis
• Theory of Employment
Development and Planning
• Meaning, Measurement and Indication of Development
• Selected Theoretical prescription of development
Money Banking and Public Finance
• The quantity theory of money
• Concepts and components of money supply
• Inflation and theories of inflation
• Taxation
Economic Analysis
• The criticism of Marginalist approach to the theory of the Firm
• Alternative theories of Firm Equilibrium
• Oligopoly
• Welfare Economics
• Limitations of the Keynesian consumption function and alternative specifications
• Hicks Hansen Elaboration of IS-LM-An elementary analysis
• Theory of investment
• The Harrod Problem
International Economics
• Theories of International Trade
• Terms of Trade
• Exchange Rate
• Free Trade and Protective Trade
• Instruments of Protection

Part-B
Indian Economy
• Planning
• General Strategies, objectives and performance of recent plans
• Analysis and performance of recent plans.
• The Agricultural Sector
• Nature and symptoms of under-development, main features of Indian economy
• The Industrial Sector
• The Reserve Bank of India

India’s Economic Policy
• Strategies towards removal of un-employment and under employment
• Industrial Policy in India
• Private Foreign investment in Indian Industries and its Regulation
• Multinational corporations and industrial growth
• Policy for small-scale industries
• Agricultural Policy
• Commercial Policy

Statistics
• Nature of Statistics
• Collection and representation of data
• Measures of Central Tendency
• Measures of Dispersion
• Nature and use of Index Numbers