• In rural India, land is the single most important productive asset owned by the people

Why are land reforms needed?

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Infrastructure Debt Funds

• In Sept 2011, RBI issued guidelines for permitting banks and NBFCs to set up IDFs to help meet long term financing for the sector
• IDFs would be set up either as MFs or NBFCs
• NBFC sponsoring IDF-MF should have a minimum net owned funds of Rs 300 crore and CAR of 15 percent
• Besides, its NPAs should be less than 3% of net advances and the NBFCs should have been in existence for at least five years and earning profits for the last three years
• Banks and NBFCs would be eligible to sponsor IDFs as mutual funds with prior approval of the RBI
• SEBI has amended the Mutual Funds Regulations to provide regulatory framework for IDF-MFs
• Banks acting as sponsors to IDF-MFs would be subject to existing prudential limits including limits on investments in financial services companies and limits on capital market exposure

Assessment of the growth experience: Poverty and Unemployment

• Poverty and unemployment are closely related
• High poverty has a multiplier effect on quality of life, deprivation, malnutrition, illiteracy and low human resource development.

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Contents

• What is WTO? Structure? Agreeements?
• Rounds of WTO
• Doha Development Round
• India’s role in WTO
• India’s proposals to WTO
• Trade in Goods
  • Agriculture
  • NAMA
  • Rules
  • SPS
  • TBT
• Trade in Services
  • GATS
• Intellectual Property (TRIPS)
• TRIMS
• Dispute settlement
• Development
  • Trade and Development
  • Aid for Trade
  • Special & Differential Treatment
• Environment
  • Trade and Environment
• Trade facilitation
• Other issues
  • E-Commerce
  • Competition policy
  • Investment
  • Government Procurement
  • Accession

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What is GST?
Goods and Services Tax — GST — is a comprehensive tax levy on manufacture, sale and consumption of goods and services at a national level.

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Bring out the differences and similarities between endogenous growth models and exogenous growth models.

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Higher Support for Market and Product Diversification
1. Incentive schemes expanded by way of addition of new products and markets.

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NSSO 66^th round Employment Survey

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Indian Agriculture

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