IGNOU BASKH BGDG 172 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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BGDG 172 (July 2025 - January 2026) - ENGLISH

INDIAN ECONOMY-I
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Course Code: BECC-111
Assignment Code: BECC-111/AST/TMA/2025-26
Total Marks: 100
Note: Answer all the questions

Section A
Long Answer Questions (word limit-500 words) 
1. How is development different from growth? Explain various approaches to development.
2. What are the major factors that have been taken into account in the approaches toestimate poverty in India? In what way they have changed over time?

Section B
Medium Answer Questions (word limit-250 words) 
3. How is ‘social progress’ defined? What is the relative position of India in respect ofSocial Progress Index?
4. Define inequality distinguishing it between ‘inequality in outcome’ and ‘inequality inopportunity’.
5. At the time of independence, what was the extent of dependence on agriculture and whatwas its share of contribution to the economy?

Section C
Short Answer Questions (word limit-100 words)
6. When does a country signifies to have entered a phase of ‘demographic dividend’? Whatare its implications for economic planning?
7. How is Human Capital defined? How is Human Development different from HumanCapital?
8. Which three factors from the ‘Demand Side’ influences the government’s decision tospend more on healthcare? Why?
9. Would you say that the expansion in the education sector has kept pace with therequirements of the economy? Why?
10. Is ‘absolute poverty’ different from ‘relative poverty’? How?

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