NEB NotesNepal
OptEco.101 • Class 1010 Lessons
Credit Hours: 4

Economics (Optional)

अर्थशास्त्र (ऐच्छिक)

Cost and Income Curves, Product Pricing, Factors of Production Pricing, Banking and Financial Institutions, Public Finance, Development Economics, International Trade, Economic Planning, and Statistics in Economics.

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Unit 1

Cost and Income Curves

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Cost and Income Curves

लागत र आय रेखाहरू

Fixed cost, variable cost, total cost, average cost, marginal cost curves, total revenue, average revenue, marginal revenue curves.

Unit 2

Product Pricing

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Product Pricing

वस्तुको मूल्य निर्धारण

Market structures (perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition), equilibrium price determination through market demand and supply.

Unit 3

Principles of Pricing of Means of Production

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Principles of Pricing of Means of Production

उत्पादनका साधनहरूको मूल्य निर्धारणका सिद्धान्तहरू

Rent (Ricardian theory), Wages (Modern theory), Interest (Liquidity preference theory), and Profit (Dynamic & Innovation theories).

Unit 4

Currency, Banking and Non-Banking Financial Institutions

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Currency, Banking and Non-Banking Financial Institutions

मुद्रा, बैङ्किङ तथा गैर-बैङ्किङ वित्तीय संस्थाहरू

Functions of money, inflation and deflation, commercial banks, central bank, monetary policy of Nepal Rastra Bank, non-banking financial intermediaries.

Unit 5

Public Finance

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Public Finance

सरकारी वित्त

Public revenue (tax and non-tax sources), public expenditure, public debt, government budget formulation and types (surplus, deficit, balanced).

Unit 6

Development Economics

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Development Economics

विकास अर्थशास्त्र

Economic growth vs economic development, indicators of development (GDP, per capita income, HDI), obstacles to economic development in Nepal.

Unit 7

International Trade

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International Trade

अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय व्यापार

Internal vs international trade, comparative cost advantage theory, balance of trade vs balance of payments, Nepal foreign trade trends.

Unit 8

Economic Planning in Nepal

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Economic Planning in Nepal

नेपालमा आर्थिक योजना

Meaning and objectives of economic planning, history of periodic plans in Nepal, current five-year plan objectives, strategies, and challenges.

Unit 9

Statistics in Economics

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Statistics in Economics

अर्थशास्त्रमा तथ्याङ्कशास्त्र

Role of statistics in economic policy, primary vs secondary data collection methods, sampling techniques, tabulation and representation.

Unit 10

Statistical Tools

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Statistical Tools

तथ्याङ्कीय उपकरणहरू

Arithmetic mean, median, mode, index numbers (simple aggregative index), consumer price index (CPI) and its calculation in Nepal.