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SYLLABUS FOR BCS (WRITTEN) EXAMINATION
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ECONOMICS
Part-II
Marks – 100
a) Meaning of development and under development, causes of under development and their remedies –
characteristics of a developing economy like Bangladesh, prospects of development of Bangladesh.
b) Issues related to development of Bangladesh: Population growth, level of unemployment, inequality
in distribution of income and wealth, gender inequality, economic governance, corruption and
poverty.
c) Role of Fiscal Policy in ec onomic development: Government‘s budget, taxes, borrowings and
repayments.
d) Role of monetary policy in economic development : role of central bank, commercial banks,
specialized banks, Grameen bank, PKSP, NGOs and micro credit programs, money market, capit al
market, credit policy, exchange rate policy, devaluation.
e) Growth of exports, imports, terms of trade, balance of trade, foreign aid, balance of payments.
f) Changing structure of real GDP of Bangladesh (1972 -2005): role of agriculture, industry and service
sectors.
g) Changing structure of Bangladesh agriculture (1972 -2005): role of crops, livestock, fisheries and
forestry-land use pattern, agricultural productivity and reforms-self sufficiency in food.
h) Industralisation in Bangladesh (1972 -2005): Role of large scale, small scale and cottage industries,
RMG and other export promotion and import substitution industries.
i) Growth of service sector in Bangladesh (1972-2005) and its importance.
j) Development planning-private sector versus public – five year plans – BDF – PRSP.
k) Bangladesh economy in the era of Globalization and WTO regime: new challenges.