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ANDHRA PRADESH PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION HYDERABAD ASSISTANT STATISTICAL OFFICER IN A.P.ECONOMICS & STATISTICAL SUBORDINATE SERVICE, NOTIFICATION No. 27/2016 (GENERAL RECRUITMENT) HALL TICKET FOR MAIN EXAMINATION (Objective Type - Computer Based Test)

MAIN EXAMINATION SYLLABUS :
PAPER -I
GENERAL STUDIES AND MENTAL ABILITY :
1. Events of national and international importance.
2. Current affairs- international, national and regional.
3. Basics of General Science and their relevance to the day to day life. Current developments in science, technology and information technology
4. History of Modern India with emphasis upon Indian national movement.
5. Economic development in India since independence.
6. Logical reasoning, analytical ability and data interpretation.
7. Disaster management.
8. Geography of India with focus on A.P
9. Indian Constitution and Polity.
10. Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection

11. Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and its Administrative, Economic, Social, Cultural, Political, and legal implications/problems, including
a). Loss of capital city, challenges in building new capital and it’s financial implications.
b). Division and rebuilding of common Institutions.
c). Division of employees, their relocation and nativity issues.
d). Effect of bifurcation on commerce and entrepreneurs.
e). Implications to financial resources of state government.
f). Task of post-bifurcation infrastructure development and opportunities for investments.
g). Socioeconomic, cultural and demographic impact of bifurcation.
h). Impact of bifurcation on river water sharing and consequential issues.
i). AP REORGANISATION ACT, 2014 on AP and the arbitrariness of Certain provisions.

PAPER-2: ECONOMICS :
PART- I
General Economics:
1. Micro- Economics: (a) Production, Agents of Production; Costs and Supply; Isoquants, (b) Consumption and Demand; Elasticity concept, (c) Market Structure and concepts of equilibrium; (d) Determination of prices; (e) Components and Theories of Distribution, (f) Elementary concepts of Welfare economics: Paretooptimality- Private and social products consumers surplus.

2. Macro- Economics: (a) National Income concepts; (b) Determinants of National income employment (c) Determinants of consumption, savings and investment, (d) Rate of Interest and its determination, (e) Interest and Profit.

3. Money, Banking and Public Finance: (a) Concepts of Money and measures of money supply; velocity of money, (b) Banks and credit creation; Banks and portfolio management, (c) Central Bank and control over money supply, (d) Determination of the price level, (e) Inflation, its causes and remedies, (f) Public, Finance-Budgets-Taxes and non-tax revenues-Types of Budget deficits.

4. International Economics:
(1) Theories of International Trade-comparative costs – Hecksher-Ohlin-Gains from Trade-Terms of Trade.
(2) Free Trade and Protection
(3) Balance of payments accounts and adjustment
(4) Exchange rate under the exchange markets
(5) Evolution of the International Monetary System and World Trading order- Gold Standard-the Brettonwoods system. IMF and the World Bank and their associates. Floating rates-GATT and WTO:

5. Growth and Development:
(1) Meaning and measurement of growth; Growth, distribution and Welfare;
(2) Characteristics of under-development;
(3) Stages of Development;
(4) Sources of growth-capital, Human capital, population, productivity, Trade and aid, non-economic factors; growth Strategies,
(5) Planning in a mixed economy-Indicative planning-Planning and growth.

Indian Economics:
1. Main features; Geographic size-Endowment of natural resources, Population; size composition quality and growth trend-Occupational distribution-Effects of British Rule with reference to Drain theory and Laissez Faire policy.

2. Major problems, their dimensions, nature and broad causes; Mass poverty- Unemployment and its types-Economics effects of population pressure-Inequality and types thereof-Low productivity and low per capita income, Rural-urban disparities-Foreign Trade and payments imbalances. Balance of Payments and External Debt-Inflation and parallel economy and its effects-Fiscal deficit.

3. Growth in income and employment since Independence-Rate, Pattern, Sectoral trends-Distributional Changes-Regional diparities.
4. Economic Planning in India: Major controversies on planning in India-Alternative strategies-goals and achievements, shortfalls of different plans-planning and the Market
5. Broad Fiscal, monetary, industrial trade and agricultural policies-objectives, rationale, constraints and effects.