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COURSES OF STUDIES (SYLLABUS)

M.A. (Previous) & M.A. (Final) Examinations in

ECONOMICS

For External Candidates


MA Economics (Prev).1st year Notes. 
Complete.

• Micro Economics

1.      Theory of demand, elasticity of demand and indifference curve analysis

2.      Economic schools of thoughts

3.      François Quesnay and the Physiocrats

4.      Equilibrium, Types of equilibrium,

5.      Utility theory, Cardinal & Ordinal,

6.      Price determination under monopoly

7.      Price determination under oligopoly

8.      Game theory

9.      Price determination under monopolistic competition

10.  Price determination under perfect competition Normal price

11.  Theory of rent

12.  Theory of wages

• Public Finance  (PF)

1.      Introduction, Pareto optimality, Social welfare

2.      Maximisation of social welfare, Role of public finance

3.      Budget policy

4.      Merit goods, Public finance vs. Private finance

5.      Pakistan's Annual Fiscal Budget 2005-06

6.      Pakistan's Annual Fiscal Budget 2006-07

7.      Pakistan's Annual Fiscal Budget 2007-08

8.      Pakistan's Annual Economic Survey 2004-05

9.      Pakistan's Annual Economic Survey 2005-06

10.  Pakistan's Annual Economic Survey 2006-07

11.  Public expenditure

12.  Public revenue

13.  Equity in taxation

14.  Incidence of taxation

15.  Public debt

16.  Deficit financing

17.  Fiscal policy

18.  Fiscal policy in Pakistan

• Economics of Planning

1.      Economic planning

2.      Types of economic planning

3.      Economic development

4.      Models of economic growth

5.      Harrod-Domar model

6.      Schumpeter's model of economic growth

7.      Planning techniques

8.      World Trade Organisation

9.      WTO and the developing countries

• Economic Planning with reference to Pakistan

1.      Economic planning in Pakistan

2.      Privatisation and deregulation

3.      Sixth Five-Year Plan (1983-88)

4.      Seventh Five-Year Plan (1988-93)

5.      Eighth Five-Year Plan (1993-98)

6.      Medium Term Development Framework 2005-10

7.      Industrialisation

8.      Resource mobilisation

9.      Foreign aid (incl. Earthquake Relief)

10.  Private investment

11.  Foreign trade

12.  Balance of payment

• National Income Accounting (NIA)

1.      Micro and Macro Economics

2.      Statics, dynamics and comparative statics

3.      Some concepts of national income accounting

4.      National income accounts

5.      Circular flow of income (2-sector, 3-sector, 4-sector economy)

6.      Theory of employment

7.      Determination of national income

8.      Consumption function

9.      Investment

10.  Multiplier and accelerator

11.  Trade cycles

• National Income Accounting in Pakistan

1.      National income accounting in Pakistan

2.      National flow of fund accounts

• Advanced Statistics  (AD)

1.    Introduction to statistics

2.    Graphical presentation I

3.    Graphical presentation II

4.    Measures of central tendency I

5.    Measures of central tendency II

6.    Measures of dispersion

7.    Measures of the shape of distribution

8.    Index numbers I

9.    Index numbers II

10. Probability

11. Random variable and its probability distribution

12. Sampling distribution theory I

13. Sampling distribution theory II

14. Coefficient of correlation

15. Regression

16. Trend series analysis I

17.  Trend series analysis II