| 21st June 2012 09:26 PM | |
| Saksham | Re: ISS Syllabus UPSC Here is the syllabus for UPSC ISS General Economics-III. General Economics-III Environmental Economics: Environmentally sustainable development, Green GDP, UN Methodology of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting. Environmental Values: Users and non-users values; option value. Valuation Methods: Stated and revealed preference methods. Design of Environmental Policy Instruments: Pollution taxes and pollution permits, collective action and informal regulation by local communities. Theories of exhaustible and renewable resources. International environmental agreements. Climatic change problems. Kyoto protocol, tradable permits and carbon taxes Public Finance: Theories of taxation: Optimal taxes and tax reforms, incidence of taxation; Theories of public expenditure: objectives and effects of public expenditure, public expenditure policy and social cost benefit analysis, criteria of public investment decisions social rate of discount, shadow prices of investment, unskilled labour and foreign exchange. Budgetary deficits. Theory of public debt management State, Market and Planning: Planning in a developing economy. Planning regulation and market. Indicative Planning. Decentralised Planning Industrial Economics: Market structure, conduct and performance of firms, product differentiation and market concentration, monopolistic price theory and oligopolistic interdependence and pricing, entry preventing pricing, micro level investment decisions and the behavior of firms, research and development and innovation, market structure and profitability, public policy and development of firms. |
| 21st June 2012 08:36 PM | |
| Ankur Rao | ISS Syllabus UPSC I need syllabus of UPSC Indian Statistics Service for General Economics-III. Can you provide me the syllabus? Also tell me that from where I can download the syllabus? |
