Syllabus
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Course Code: M-ECOE- 026 Course Name: Elective Course - Economics of Infrastructure-II |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Water Supply and Telecommunication Water supply: Water utilities, urban and rural water supply; Telecommunication: Telecom reforms in India with a critique of national telecom policy; Relationship between TRAI, Department of telecom, and public and private operators; Role of telecom infrastructure in meeting needs of the economy and the IT sector. Reading List • Athreya, M.B. (1996). India’s telecommunications policy: a paradigm shift. Telecommunications Policy, 20(1), 11-22. • Green, Colin (2003).Handbook of Water Economics: Principles and Practice. Wiley. • Smith P.L. & Staple, G. (1994). Telecommunication sector reforms in Asia: towards a new pragmatism (World Bank discussion paper no. 232). World Bank, Washington D.C. |
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| 2 | Economics of Energy Availability and Supply of Different Sources of Energy; Supply Constraints; Supply Scenario and Investment Requirements; Determinants of Energy Demand; Estimating Energy Demand; Price and Income Elasticity; Demand - Supply Gap; Need for Energy Demand Management; Renewable Energy Options; Methods and Principles of Energy Pricing Reading List • Munasinghe, M. & Meier, P. (1993). Energy Policy Analysis and Modeling. Cambridge University Press, U K. • Stevens, P. (Ed.). (2000).The Economics of Energy (Vol -I and Vol–II). Edward Elgar. |
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| 3 | Theory of Urbanization The Process of Urbanization- Nature and Dimensions; Clusters and Agglomeration; Sub-urbanization; Christaller’s Central Place Theory; Urban Economic Base and Urban Growth; The Human Ecological Approach to Urban Growth; City Size and Urban Growth; Urban Size: Ratchet-Rank Size Rule; Optimum City Size; Urban Spatial Structure - Features; Urban Residential Land Use Models: Von Thunen, Alonso, Muth, Siegel, Park Burgess. Reading List • Bish, Robert L. & Nourse, Hugh O. (1975). Urban Economics and Policy Analysis. McGraw Hill Kogakusha Ltd. Tokyo. • Heilbrun, James (1981). Urban Economics and Public Policy. St Martin’s Press, New York. • Hirsch, W.E. (1973). Urban Economic Analysis. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. • O’ Sullivan, Arther (2007). Urban Economics. McGraw Hill Higher Education, Boston. • Richardson, H.W. (2013). The New Urban Economics and Alternatives. Routledge. |
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| 4 | Economics of Health Health and economic development; Determinants of Health – poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy and lack of information; Economic dimensions of health care – Demand and supply of health care; Financing of health care and resource constraints; Inequalities in health – class and gender perspectives; Institutional issues in health care delivery; Development of health infrastructure in Indian plans. Reading List • Feldstein, M.S. (1967). Economic Analysis of Health Services Efficiency: Econometric Studies of the British National Health Service. Amsterdam: North Holland. • Folland, S., Goodman, Allen C. & Stano, M. (2016). The Economics of Health and Health Care. Routledge, New York. • Planning Commission, Government of India. Five Year Plan Documents (6th to 12th Plan). New Delhi. • Morris, S., Devlin, N. & Parkin, D. (2007). Economic Analysis in Health Care. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., England. • Phelps, C. E. (2016). Health Economics. Routledge, New York. |
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