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1. Development ............................................................................................................................... 3 Technical Terms Terms ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... ..................................................................... ................ 3 Important Points .................................................... ......................................................................................................... ..................................................................... ................ 4 2. Sectors of the Indian Indian economy ......................................................... .......................................... 5 Technical Terms Terms ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... ..................................................................... ................ 5 Important Points .................................................... ......................................................................................................... ..................................................................... ................ 6 3. Money and credit .........................................................................................................................7 Technical Terms Terms ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... ......................................................................7 .................7 Important Points .................................................... ......................................................................................................... ..................................................................... ................ 8 4. Globalization and the Indian economy ...................................................... ....................................................................................... ................................. 9 Technical Terms Terms ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... ..................................................................... ................ 9 Important Points .................................................... ......................................................................................................... ....................................................................10 ...............10 5. Consumer rights ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... .................................................................... ............... 11 Technical Terms ..................................................... .......................................................................................................... .................................................................... ............... 11 Important Points .................................................... ......................................................................................................... .................................................................... ............... 11
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1. Development Technical Terms Development : Growth of economy along with the improvement in the quality of life of the people like health, education etc.
Social Development: Growth of different section of the society in a country. soundness. Health: State of complete physical, mental and social soundness.
Education: Awareness of the society regarding the laws of the lan. Sex Ratio: Percentage of female’s population per thousand males in a country. Economic Activity: Activities concerned with earning of income for livelihood. concerned with with earning earning of income. income. Non-Economic Non-Econom ic Activity: Activities which are not concerned
Economy: A designated boundary boundary area within which which production, production, consumption and investment investment activities are carried on.
Human Development Index (HDI): The measure of human capabilities such as length of life, educational achievement, achievement, and standard of living.
Central Statistical Organization: An organisation which conducts survey and presents statistical data of the economy like national income, proportion of population, GDP etc.
National Income: Sum of the market value of final goods and services produced in a country in an accounting year.
Income: Money earned by an individual, or company etc. Infrastructure: Availability of roads, bridges, power, health, education facilities etc. in an economy.
Developed Economies: Economies which are characterized by high level of capita income and higher standard of living. For example, USA, United Kingdom, Australia etc.
Developing Economies: Economies which are in the progress of growth and development. For example, India, China etc.
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Important Points Infant Mortality Rate: The rate at which children in a country die within an age of 0-1 year. 6 —10 attending school as a Net Attendance Ratio: Total number of children of age group 6— percentage of total number in the same age group.
Body Mass Index (BMI): Level of under-nourished adults in an economy. Man-made Resources: Resources created by man like, roads, bridge, plant and machinery etc. Nature-made Resources: The resources provided by the nature like, crude oil, land, mountains, sunlight, etc.
Literacy Rate: The proportion of literate population in the 7 and above age group. Developing Countries: Countries having low and medium income as per World Bank’s estimation.
Factors of Production: Inputs which are required to produce goods and services known as factors of production. Land, Labor, Capital and Enterprise are factors of production.
Accounting Period: Period: Period of 12 months starting from 1st April and ending on 31st March of the next year.
Census: The official enumeration of population along with certain economic and social statistics in a given territory and carried out on a specific day.
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economy 2. Sectors of the Indian economy Technical Terms activities, mining, Primary Sector: Primary sector is the sector which involves agricultural activities, forestry, poultry etc.
Secondary Sector: It is the sector which is engaged in manufacturing of goods from raw material provided by the primary sector.
Industry: It is a combination of firms engaged in similar activity like textile industry, banking industry, insurance industry, auto industry etc.
Public Investment: The money invested by the government in construction of roads, bridges, dams, schools, colleges, law and order etc.
Employment: It is a situation where the able- bodied persons willing to work and are engaged in some productive activity to earn the income.
Unemployment: It is a situation where the able- bodied persons willing willing to work but are not able to get work. They are not engaged in any productive activity. i s a situation where people work at a job which is below their capacity Underemployment: It is and skill set and education.
Trade: Trade means the activity of buying and selling of finished goods in the market. Ore: A type of natural resource which is commercially commercially useful and contains metals and other compounds.
Transhuman: Seasonal migration of people with their animals in search of pastures and water. Ranch: It is a wide ideal farm set up with modern facilities where animal husbandry is carried on with the main purpose of obtaining meat and wool.
Antism: It is a serious mental ailment present from early childhood in which one is unable to communicate with others.
Birth Rate: The number of live births for every thousand persons.
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Important Points Service/Tertiary Service/Terti ary Sector: Tertiary sector is a service sector which helps both primary and secondary sectors. It includes transportation, banking, banking, financing, insurance etc.
National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO): It is an organisation which conducts conducts surveys on employment and unemployment in an economy.
Disguised Unemployme Unemployment: nt: It is a type of hidden unemployment where people seem to be working but but they do not contribute to to the actual production. production.
Gross Domestic Product: The value of goods and services produced in an economy in a financial year. employment are regular and Organized Sector: It covers those enterprises where the terms of employment they have assured work.
Unorganized Sector: Small and scattered units which are outside the control of the government come under the unorganized sector. enterprises in which government government owns majority of the shareholding of the Public Sector: Those enterprises company/enterprise.
Private Sector: Those enterprises where the ownership of assets is in the hands of private individual/companies.
Small Scale Industry (SSI): These are the group of small units which is engaged in productive activities for generation of employment. employment. supporting themselves by Occupation: Activity carried by human beings for the purpose of supporting earning income.
Large Scale Industry (LSI): Those groups of companies which employ large number of labor
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3. Money and credit Technical Terms Money: It means anything chosen by common consent as a medium of exchange. Credit: It refers to the activity of borrowing and lending money between two parties. management of public money collected from Financial System: A system which deals with the management tax.
Banking: The activity of deposit, withdrawal of money and other related monetary monetary activities. Credit Money: The money whose money value is greater than the commodity value of the material from which the money is made is known as credit money.
Standard Money: The legal money, in which the government discharges its obligations, is known as standard money.
Barter System: The system by which one commodity is exchanged for another without without use of money.
Collateral: It is an asset that the borrower owns (such as land, building, vehicle live stocks, deposits with banks) and uses this as a guarantee to a lender until the loan is repaid.
Cheque: It is an unconditional written instruction instruction made by the account holder to the bank to pay the specified amount to the drawer of the cheque or to any other person as per instruction. balance to facilitate Debit Card: The card issued to the Bank Account holders against their bank balance and simplify the payment, withdrawal and transfer of money anytime, anywhere through the computer is known as Debit Card.
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Important Points Bank (Commerc ( Commercial): ial): An Institution which accepts deposits from public for the purpose of lending and investment.
Indian Monetary System: The system of managing demand and supply of money by the Reserve Bank of India is known as Indian Monetary System.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI): It is the Central Bank of India which controls the Monetary policy of the economy. It was established on 1st April 1935 as shareholder bank. performing Automated Teller Teller Machines Machines (ATMs): It is a free standing self-service terminal performing 60% of tellers job quickly and at lesser cost.
Crossing of the Cheque: Drawing two parallel lines on the left side on top of a cheque is called crossing of the cheque.
Money Supply: It is the total stock s tock of money at a particular point of time in an economy. Deferred Payment: The payment which is to be made in the future. needs to keep with Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR): It is minimum cash which a commercial bank needs itself as per the regulation of RBI.
Formal Institutions: They are the institutions which are regulated by rules and regulations laid down by the Government/RBI.
Informal Institutions Institutions:: These institutions are self-managed and they are out of the reach of RBI regulations due to their unorganized structure and way of working.
Local Moneylenders: They are informal institutions who lend money on the basis of nearness of the local population.
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4. Globalization and the Indian economy
Technical Terms Globalization: It means opening up the economy to facilitate its integration with the world economy.
Liberalization: It refers to liberal and easy policy for carrying business or profession within or outside the country and it also seeks to make licensing policy easy.
Privatization: Privatization means removing strict control over private sector and making them free to take necessary decisions. Outsourcing: Outsourcing: It is the process of giving some internal functions of the business to some outside vendor, who will take care of that particular process to help the overall business objective.
Foreign Trade: It is a process of buying and selling goods and services from one country to another.
Foreign Companies: These are the companies w7hich work in a country but they were originally incorporated incorporated or registered outside the country. refers to the setting s etting up of a foreign company’s office in a country or Foreign Investment: This refers investing money in some infrastructure project like, roads, rail, bridge, electricity power etc.
Fiscal Deficit: The excess of all estimated government expenditure during the year over the anticipated government government receipts of the year both on revenue and capital account except borrowings borrowings is termed as fiscal fiscal deficit.
Revenue Deficit: It refers to the excess of government revenue expenditure over the revenue
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Important Points Economic Reforms: Economic reform is the process of liberalization, globalization and privatization of the industrial sector of the economy to bring competitiveness competitiveness and market driven functioning of the economy.
Multinationall Companies (MNCs): A multinational company is a company that owns or Multinationa controls production in more than one nation.
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO): A BPO is an organisation which works on different processes of different companies to help them in reducing cost of operation and providing standard and high quality service delivery.
MRTP Act: Monopoly and restricted trade practices act was established in 1970 to regulate the competitive environment environment among companies.
Internationall Monetary Fund (IMF): IMF is an international financial institution that helps Internationa member nations to overcome the scarcity of foreign exchange.
World Bank: An International International financial institution established to extend financial assistance to member-nations member-nations for development development purpose.
WTO: It stands for World Trade Organisation. The aim of this organisation is to conduct the international trade among member countries.
Multi-laterall Agreements: The agreements entered Multi-latera entered by group of countries co untries are known as multilateral agreements. together. Mixed Economy: It is a system in which private and public sector work together.
IT Sector: Information Technology Sector provides hardware, software and other related services to companies based within or outside the country.
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5. Consumer rights Technical Terms self-consumption. Consumer: The person who uses goods and services for his self-consumption.
Customer: The person who buys goods and avails services from the market is called customer. Adulteration: It is the practice of mixing bad substances in a good substance which is sold in the market. implemented under the “Agricultural Produce Produce Act 1937”. It was amended in the Agmark: It is implemented year 1986 and it it covers products products like Honey, Honey, species species etc.
Market Place: It is a place where buyers and sellers come together to exchange goods and services.
COPRA: Consumer Protection Act. conscious-ness towards their rights and the social and legal Consumer Awareness: Consumer’s conscious-ness obligations of the business and the government government towards consumers are known as consumer’s
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Public Distribution System: PDS is also known as ration shop. The aim of PDS is to prevent hoarding, black marketing etc.
Consumer Courts: These are the courts dealing in consumers cases only. Codex Alimentarious Commission: It was created in 1963 by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Health Organisation. Its head office is in Rome.