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CBSE Class 12 Economics Syllabus

Marks

Periods

Part A

Introductory Macroeconomics

National Income and Related Aggregates

10

23
Money and Banking

Determination of Income and Employment

12

22

Government Budget and the Economy

15
Balance of Payments

40

75

Part B
Indian Economic Development

Development Experience (1947-90)

and Economic Reforms since 1991

12

28

Current Challenges facing Indian Economy


22

35

Development Experience of India – A Comparison with

Neighbours

06

12

Theory Paper (40+40 = 80 Marks)

40

75
Part C

Project Work

20

15

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Part A: Introductory Macroeconomics

Unit 1: National Income and Related Aggregates

What is Macroeconomics?

Basic concepts in macroeconomics: consumption goods, capital goods, final goods, intermediate goods;
stocks and flows; gross investment and depreciation.

Circular flow of income (two sector model); Methods of calculating National Income - Value Added or
Product method, Expenditure method, Income method.

Aggregates related to National Income:

Gross National Product (GNP), Net National Product (NNP), Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Net
Domestic Product (NDP) - at market price, at factor cost; Real and Nominal GDP.

GDP and Welfare

Unit 2: Money and Banking


Money - meaning and supply of money - Currency held by the public and net demand deposits held by
commercial banks.

Money creation by the commercial banking system.

Central bank and its functions (example of the Reserve Bank of India): Bank of issue, Govt. Bank,
Banker's Bank, Control of Credit.

Unit 3: Determination of Income and Employment

Aggregate demand and its components.

Propensity to consume and propensity to save (average and marginal). Short-run equilibrium output;
investment multiplier and its mechanism. Meaning of full employment and involuntary unemployment.

Problems of excess demand and deficient demand; measures to correct them - changes in
government spending, taxes and money supply through Bank Rate, CRR, SLR, Repo Rate and Reverse
Repo Rate, Open Market Operations, Margin requirement.

Unit 4: Government Budget and the Economy

Government budget - meaning, objectives and components.

Classification of receipts - revenue receipts and capital receipts; classification of expenditure –


revenue expenditure and capital expenditure.

Measures of government deficit - revenue deficit, fiscal deficit, primary deficit their meaning.
Unit 5: Balance of Payments

Balance of payments account - meaning and components;

Foreign exchange rate - meaning of fixed and flexible rates and managed floating.

Part B: Indian Economic Development

Unit 6: Development Experience (1947-90) and Economic Reforms since 1991:

A brief introduction of the state of Indian economy on the eve of independence. Indian economic
system and common goals of Five Year Plans.

Main features, problems and policies of agriculture (institutional aspects and new agricultural strategy),
industry (IPR 1956; SSI – role & importance) and foreign trade.

Economic Reforms since 1991:

Features and appraisals of liberalisation, globalisation and privatisation (LPG policy); Concepts of
demonetization and GST

Unit 7: Current challenges facing Indian Economy

Poverty- absolute and relative; Main programmes for poverty alleviation: A critical assessment;
Human Capital Formation: How people become resource; Role of human capital in economic
development;

Rural development: Key issues - credit and marketing - role of cooperatives; agricultural
diversification;

Employment: Growth and changes in work force participation rate in formal and informal sectors;
problems and policies

Infrastructure: Meaning and Types: Case Studies: Health: Problems and Policies- A critical assessment;

Sustainable Economic Development: Meaning, Effects of Economic Development on

Resources and Environment, including global warming

Unit 8: Development Experience of India:

A comparison with neighbours

India and Pakistan

India and China

Issues: economic growth, population, sectoral development and other Human

Development Indicators
Part C: Project in Economics (Available in PDF)

Prescribed Books:

1. Statistics for Economics, NCERT

2. Indian Economic Development, NCERT

3. Introductory Microeconomics, NCERT

4. Macroeconomics, NCERT

5. Supplementary Reading Material in Economics, CBSE

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