India-Emerging Market Eco

This course is devoted to an in-depth study of India’s economy. Topics include growth, poverty, inequality, the fiscal deficit, public debt, the current account deficit, exchange-rate management, the financial sector, taxation, trade policy, foreign direct investment, capital account convertibility, urban land markets, and labor-market policies. Post-independence economic history and political economy would be integral to the study of these topics. The course assumes knowledge of introductory micro- and macroeconomics.