Thursday, October 22, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Paper 3 - Section 2 - Chapter 4
State finances and budgetary policy – tax structure, sharing central taxes, expenditure
pattern in revenue and capital account as well as plan and non-plan accounts. Public debt – composition - internal and external debt including World Bank loans.
For Budgetary Policy which is also called as fiscal policy we can go through the below document.
Statement of Fiscal Policy to be laid on the table of the A.P. State Legislature in August, 2009
If a brief description of Andhra Pradesh Budget is needed to you. Please go through the below attachment where you can find Budget in Brief of Andhra for this year's budget.
Budget in Brief 2009
Though I have refined notes on this chapter it will be very difficult for me to update here.I will try to upload it anyways.
I will post the expected questions in next posting.
Hope this is helpful.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Paper 3 - Poverty and Unemployment-Expected Questions
Expected questions:
1. Explain the methods of measuring poverty in India?
2. Explain the methods of measuring unemployment in India?
3. What are the properties that determine poverty and explain the reasons why poverty is a major economic issue in developing countries like India?
4. Explain the poverty estimates after independence and types of methods used for estimating poverty in developing and developed countries?
5. Explain why poverty did not reduce that level when compared to economic development Post-reform period?
6. What are the concepts used by NSSO for measuring unemployment and explain the different ways of unemployment in rural India?
7. Wage employment schemes, self employment schemes- which one does you think are the best to ameliorate poverty and unemployment?
8. Discuss the progress of NREGA and explain how this act helped in employment generation?
9. What are the steps need to be taken to improve employment opportunities?
10. What was done to ameliorate poverty?
11. What should be done to ameliorate poverty?
12. What is the status of poverty in India in pre- and post reform period?
13. What are the causes of unemployment?
14what was done to ameliorate unemployment?
15. What should be done to ameliorate unemployment?
15. Discuss NREGA , its implementation and its pros and cons?
16. What is the status of unemployment in India?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
APPSC Papers 2008
PAPER 1
PAPER 2
PAPER 3
PAPER 4
PAPER 5
GENERAL ENGLISH
Hope this will be helpful.
My Plan of preperation
As of now I am preparing for Paper 3 and Paper 5 for mains along with prelims. So we shall be having material and discussion on this areas particularly.
My findings will be pin point and will have information from examination point of view since our aim is to write stuff of 200 words with in given 10 minutes for a question with utmost matter we know. There should be no question of checking for words or answers while writing it.stick to the question and answer it.






