This document provides an overview of the Indian economic and trade policy course structure and evaluation. It discusses key topics like the structure of the Indian economy, sector-specific issues, social sector development, external sector overview and trade policy. It analyzes India's economic growth performance across five-year plans and four phases of development. Some challenges discussed are structural transformation of the economy, employment growth, poverty reduction and the political economy implications of reforms.

1. Indian Economic & Trade Policy Session-1 MBA (IB) – 2006-09

4. GROWTH PERFORMANCE IN THE FIVE YEAR PLAN PERIOD 5.54 5.2 Sixth 5.35 6.5 Ninth 6.0 5.6 Eighth 6.02 5.0 Seventh 4.83 4.4 Fifth 2.05 5.7 Fourth 2.72 5.6 Third 4.21 4.5 Second 3.6 2.1 First Actual Target Plan

11. GDP Growth (at factor cost)

13. Sectoral Growth Performance (%) 6.3 7.8 6.8 6.5 3.4 1988-06 4.8 6.5 7.1 6.3 2.1 1981-88 3.2 4.3 3.9 4.0 2.1 1965-81 4.1 4.7 6.6 6.7 2.9 1951-65 Total GDP Service Manf. Industry Agrl & Allied Period

14. Sectoral Growth – Recent Trend

15. Sectoral Composition of GDP (%) 100 52 17 27 21 2004-05 100 41 16 26 33 1987-88 100 36 14 24 40 1980-81 100 31 12 21 49 1964-65 100 28 9 15 57 1950-51 Total GDP Service Manf. Industry Agrl & Allied Period

21. Investment Scenarios

22. Growth of Capital Formation

23. Sectoral Employment Shares by Current Daily Status (CDS Basis)

24. Employment and Unemployment in million person (by CDS basis)

25. Employment Growth

26. Social Sector Issues- Poverty

27. Growth of MPCEs (monthly per-capita consumption expenditure)