M.A. ECONOMICS (SEMESTER-WISE) - Dr BR Ambedkar University

DR. BHIM RAO AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY, AGRA .National Power Grid. Financing Water Utilities. Urban and Rural Water Supply. The Exploitation ofNatural Gas. Pricing Problem.UNIT 4: Social InfrastructureOrganization and Financing of Supply of Social Services. Private vs. Public Sector Financing, Recentdebate about the fixation of prices of social services. Development of social services in the successiveIndian Plans.UNIT 5: Education and HealthEducation and Economic Growth. Approaches to Educational Planning. Social Demand. Rate of Returnand Manpower Balance Approaches. The Case for Universal, Free, Primary Education, Structure of highereducation and problems of its financing in India, Human Resources and Human Capital Development.The issues in education policy, Health dimensions of development, Determinants of Health — poverty,malnutrition, illiteracy and lack of information, Economic dimensions of health care — Demand andsupply of health care, Financing of health care and resource constraints, Inequalities in health — classand gender perspectives, Institutional issues in health care delivery.Recommended Books• Crew, M.A. and P.R. Kleindorfer, Public Utility Economics, Macmillan, London.• Indian Council of Social Sciences Research (ICSSR) , Economics of Infrastructure, Vol. VI, NewDelhi.• National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), India Infrastructure Report : PolicyImplications for Growth and Welfare, NCAER, New Delhi.• Parikh, K.S. (Ed.) (1997), India Development Report, Oxford, New Delhi.• Turvey, R. (Ed.) , Public Enterprises, Penguin, Harmondsworth.• Nelson, J.R., Marginal Cost Pricing in Practice, Prentice-Hall, Englewood-Cliff.• Phillips, A. and O.E. Williamson, Prices: Issues in Theory, Practice and Public Policy, University ofPennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.Page 72