Subject(s): Economic development -- Economic policy -- Industrial Development -- Poverty and unemployment -- Basic problems -- Economic development, Characteristics of an underdeveloped country , Obstacles to economic development, Basic requirements for economic development , meaning and characteristics of modern economic growth, factors of economic growth: economic and non-economic -- Some theories of economic development -- Adam smith's theory of development, Ricardian theory , Malthusian theory of economic development, Classical theory, Marxian theory of economic development , Schumpeterian theory, keynesian theory, Rostow's stages of economic growth, Lewis theory of unlimited supplies of labour, Leibenstein's critical minimum efforts thesis, Nelson's low-level equilibrium trap, Big push theory, doctrine of balance growth, Concept of unbalanced growth, Dualistic theories, Mrdal's theory of backwash effects -- Some growth models -- Harrod-Domar models, Kaldor model of distribution , Joan Robinson's model of capital accumulation, Meade's neo-classical model of economic growth , Solow model of long run growth, Kaldor's model of growth, Models of technical changes, Steady-state growth, Fel'dman model, Mahalanobis model , Controls under planning -- Planning technique: Input output analysis, Linear programming. Concept of capital-output ration, Choice of techniques, Investment criteria in economic development, Economic planning and price mechanism -- Planning in India -- Objectives and achievements of Indian planning, Strategy of Indian planning, Resources mobilisation in Indian planning, Sixth five year plan 1980-85, patterns of investment in Indian plans, Industrial policy under the plans, Agricultural policy under the plans, Regional disparities and balanced regional development, Poverty in India, Economic inequalities in India, Unemployment in India, National income of India, Saving, investment and growth rates, techniques and methodology of planning in India, Planned growth with social justice, Planning machinery in India, Public sector in India, Foreign trade in India