Poverty and Development Planning
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The official GTU curriculum for Poverty and Development Planning (subject code 2734803) as prescribed for TACP · Semester 3 divides the course into 4 units, covering 35 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2734803)Unit 1 Understanding poverty
- concept of poverty
- new definitions of poverty and its likely impact: relative poverty
- absolute poverty
- over all poverty
- extreme poverty
- physical poverty
- income poverty
- rural and urban poverty
- poverty data base in India
- data sources used for estimating poverty in India (household surveys and household consumption surveys)
- Globalization of poverty
Unit 2 Measures of poverty
- Evolution of poverty line
- consumption expenditure data: per capita consumer expenditure
- distribution of expenditure
- source of Data: National Sample Survey (NSS)
- National Accounts Statistics
- identification of poor
- how identification is done in India
- food and land as a substitute
- slum centric views and other methods
- Approaches: livelihood approach
- consumption based approaches
Unit 3 Indicators of poverty
- Methodology: Poverty Lines
- Rural and urban poverty lines
- national poverty lines
- poverty ratio
- sub-national indicators: MDG indicators
- income and non-income indicators (Education and health)
- Quality of life indicators
- empowerment indicators
- gender indicators, and human development indicators
Unit 4 Rural and urban poverty
- Over view: incidence and dynamics of rural poverty: causes of rural poverty: dimensions of rural poverty
- estimates of rural poverty in India
- issues related to rural poverty
- reviews of development strategies of past
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