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Objectives

This course aims to help potential rural managers develop a keener appreciation of opportunities and constraints in the rural environment. The rural environment has witnessed rapid, at times catastrophic, changes in recent years necessitating a rethink on many institutions and their roles. The course would train the participants to

1. Recognize the role and appreciate the importance of contextual environments in influencing decision making.

2. Understand some basics of the rural environment – poverty, unemployment, growth, development, globalisation etc and how public policies have and are responding to these challenges.

3. Sensitize them towards institutional dynamics between the state, private sector and civil society institutions

4. Sharpen skills in qualitative reasoning that includes thinking about complexity and planning for diversity in decision making contexts.

Course pedagogy and Evaluation

Course participants are expected to and encouraged to read beyond standard text books and prepare to relate classroom learning with their RLLE both in the class and through an e-group that will be constituted for the course. The grading pattern is as below. The groups are also expected to participate in analysis of a public policy through a term paper.

Assignments : 20 %

Term Papers : 20 %

Mid Term exam : 15 %

Class and egroup participation : 10 %

End term examination : 35 %

Suggested Session Plan

Session	Topic
1	Course introduction, understanding rural environment
2	Changing visions of the village and village republics
3	Mapping the development context of rural India – natural, social, economic
4	Estimating district income –
5	Dynamics of rural environment – political environment and economic system, growth and development
6	Indian economy an overview
7	Poverty in India
8	Globalisation and vulnerability – Guest lecture
9	International policy processes – Guest lecture
10	Understanding the budget –
	Mid Term Exam
11	Employment and unemployment, migration
12	Fundamentals of public policy
13	Fundamentals of public policy and policy making in India
14	Planning in India
15	NREGA
16	An overview of development studies
17	Globalisation and development
18	New policy mechanisms - New Public management, institutional economics, public private partnerships
19	Policy panel – reviews of public policies
20	Policy panel – reviews of public policies

Suggested Readings:

1. Thomas Dye, Understanding Public Policy.
2. Uma Kapila. Understanding the Problems of Indian economy
3. Dutt and Sundaram. Indian economy
4. Kaushik Basu. Ed. Oxford Companion to economics in India.
5. Sainath. P. Everybody loves a good drought
6. Chambers, R. Ideas for Development. & Rural development: Putting the Last First.
7. Uphoff, Norman. Reasons for success and Reasons for Hope.

The list is only indicative. Readings will be incorporated from time to time. Students are also expected to benefit from accessing the Government of India websites and other websites such as www.empowerpoor.org . Reading of the Economic and Political Weekly, Down to Earth and Tehelka regularly is strongly recommended.
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