Subject(s): Economic development. -- Measuring development, poverty -- Economic performance of less developed countries in recent past : Indian economic reforms -- Discipline of development economics : Evolution of development economics, new endogenous growth theory -- Historical perspective : Economic growth in third world, division of the world and the factoral terms of trade, agricultural productivity, comparative advantage and economic growth, income distribution , market size and industrialization -- Savings and investment : AK model, fixed investment for economic growth, interest rate, financial liberalization, financial development and economic growth in underdeveloped countries -- International trade and technology transfers : Trade, natural resources, import substituting, infant industries, typology in development theory, Krueger's trade model, process of industrial development and alternative development strategies, trade policy reforms, foreign contact and technology transfer, FDI -- Human resources : Education, economic impact on education, human capital, population, health and nutrition, gender and development,women's education,grameen bank, sustainability -- Migration and urban informal sector : Urban underemployment, informal sector, rural-urban migration, economic development with unlimited supplies of labour, model of labour migration and urban unemployment in less developed countries, Lewis v/s Harris -Todaro view of underemployment , wage spillovers, unemployment, informal sector -- agriculture : Economic development, designing an agricultural strategy, microeconomics of the rural sector, agricultural pricing policy and urban bias -- Income distribution : Impact of development on income distribution, inequality -- Political economy : Role of state in less developed countries, rent seeking and government failure, state capacity -- Development and environment : Environmental problems in developed and underdeveloped countries, deforestation, pollution, sustainable development, ecology and economic progress