Economics

As a world leader in distance education, it has been conferred with awards of excellence by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Canada, several times. IGNOU provides seamless access to sustainable and learner-centric quality education, skill upgradation and training to all by using innovative technologies and methodologies. IGNOU teaching techniques include self-instructional materials, counselling sessions, both face-to-face and via teleconferencing mode. The M.A. (Economics) Programme at IGNOU offers the learners an opportunity for higher studies in Economics. Besides offering the core courses available in other universities, it includes themes in some of the emerging areas in economics such as insurance, finance and computer applications that are expected to be extremely useful in the present scenario of economic liberalization and globalization.

Studies how individuals, businesses, governments and nations make choices on allocating resources to satisfy their wants and needs, and tries to determine how these groups should organize and coordinate efforts to achieve maximum output. There are multiple specialisation in the field of economics such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, investigating market structure, strategic business decision, public economics, econometric, business economics, International trade, etc. With increased demand for data analyst in business to gain competitive advantage, graduates with Econometric expertise are in huge demand. Econometric is the application of statistical methods to economic data and is described as the branch of economics that aims to give empirical content to economic relations. It is the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

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