Comparative Economic Development — DU B.A. (Hons.) Economics Previous Year Question Papers

1. What are the economic ideas of Mao Zedong on agricultural transformation? Also explain its relation to capital formation and industrialisation? 2. Critically examine the argument that Meiji Restoration laid the foundation of modern economic growth in Japan. 3. Analyze the prerequisites for industrialisation in Britain. To what extent did agricultural transformation and trade contribute to it? 4. Explain how Japan emerged as a modern state and describe that how the starting point of Japanese industrialization was conditioned by Military necessity. Examine the policy measures adopted by East Asian economies for industrialization. How successful were these in achieving economic development? Discuss "primitive socialist accumulation" in China as an alternative explanation for the anomalies of Chinese capitalism. 7. Compare the institutional basis of economic development in Britain and Japan. What similarities and differences existed in land tenure, financial systems and the role of the state in industrialisation? 8. Discuss the changes which occurred in Japanese agriculture during the early period of industrialisation and their significance for the economy as a whole. 9. Examine and critically assess Alice Amsden's theory of late industrialisation.