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Tendulkar’s ത്ത definition.
Physical quality life index.
Foreign institutional investment.

Golden revolution.

Brain drain.
Decentralised planning.
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)
Part C (Short Essay Questions)
Answer any six questions.
Each question carries 5 marks.
Discuss the usefulness of public sector undertakings, though they incur huge losses and drain the

economy’s resources.
Give a brief account on Targeted Public Distribution System.
Write down the arguments in favour and against the subsidisation of agriculture in India.
Analyse the effect of agricultural subsidy on agriculture and farmers in India in last two decades.
What is absolute poverty and relative poverty and explain its causes ?
Write down the background for the introduction of new economic policy in India.
Explain how does import substitution can protect domestic industry ?
What do you mean by the concept ‘inclusiveness’ as envisaged in the 11th five year plan ?
(6 x 5 = 30 marks)
Part D (Essay Questions)

Answer any two questions.
Each question carries 12 marks.

Examine the role as well as the problems faced by the Small-scale and Cottage industries in India’s
Industrial development.

Discuss the importance of agriculture in Indian economy, despite its declining share in GDP.

“Foreign remittance is the back bone of Kerala’s socio-economic development”. Discuss.

Analyse the trends in industrial development in the pre and post liberalisation period in India.
(2 x 12 = 24 marks)