Course Credit: 4

This course provides an introduction to contemporary research on the political economy of development. This course also focuses on the inter-relationship between politics and economic development. It will examine both how socio-political factors influence poverty and economic growth, and how economic factors, in turn, shape the political trajectories of developing nations

Course Credit: 4

This course is designed to present an in-depth knowledge of the socio-anthropological perspectives and theories that are pertinent to explain social changes in general and development in particular. The overview of the foundational knowledge of sociology and anthropology will add additional but firm grip to the conventional and non-conventional understanding of development and development discourse. This will provide students with a holistic and critical understanding of how peoples’ lives are shaped and transformed by different social relations, culture, power, political economy, history and environment. This course also explains the paradigm shift in development from economic to social domain. In this context, focus will be on the SDGs and its implementation challenges.

Course Credit: 4

This course aims to provide students with a systematic approach to learn tools and techniques of analyzing and evaluating public policy and program text, context and outcomes at national and international level. In this course students learn and apply quantitative methods including cost-benefit analysis; statistical and econometric analysis of policy and program-relevant data; survey design and interpretation; and formal policy models based on decision theory. Similarly, this course will also offer theories and techniques of narrative-critical analysis of policy and public policy including actor-power analysis, critical discourse analysis, critical policy analysis and feminist policy analysis. The course stimulates debates and critical discussion on methods, tools and skills of analyzing, both ex-ante and ex-post, public policies that they need at work

Course Credit: 4

The Course equips the students with theoretical and empirical analysis relating to natural resource management. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: analysis of environmental policies, development of valuation techniques and novel applications of valuation techniques to new data sets, study of environmental behavior and responses to regulation, analyses of exhaustible, renewable and non-renewable, resources and resource policy, notably the economics of fisheries, forestry and fossil fuels, analyses of the carbon cycle, accumulating pollutants, such as greenhouse gases, environmental problems in developing countries, such as degradation of natural resources and health problems caused by pollution, energy economics related to the environment and agricultural economics related to the environment. The course emphasizes on existing and future human-nature inter-relationship and interdependence

Course Credit: 2+2

The internship is an important academic program of the Department of Development Studies (DDS) that provides the interns with exposure to real-life situations in various development- oriented organizations. The interns can use their theoretical knowledge in actual situation in real organizations. Moreover, this program provides the interns an opportunity to be assessed by prospective employers as well as enables them to establish and expand their network of contracts. Internship evaluation will be as follows: Evaluation by Host Organizations (Practical) : 50% Evaluation By Supervisor Faculty on Report Writing on Internship : 50%