1. Prologue
  2. BES163-P1: Balance of Payment, Gold Monetization Scheme
  3. BES163-P2: Capital Account, FDI, FII, E-Commerce, Mauritius DTAA
  4. BES163-P3: Helicopter Money, Rules of Monetary Policy, ECB-framework

Prologue

  • Third pillar of Economy- balance of payment and international trade- covering the updates from latest budget and economic survey.
  • Powerpoint available at http://Mrunal.org/download (Go to mediafire => powerpoint => Mrunal =>3_BoP)

BES163-P1: Balance of Payment, Gold Monetization Scheme

BES163_P01_Current_Gold_Schemes.mp4

  • Definition of Balance of Payment, trade deficit, trade surplus
  • ranking of top five import export items by India
  • reasons behind the fall of oil prices in 2014-15
  • Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme: salient features, benefits and criticism
  • National capital policy 2016: salient features of, which department will implement this? What other targets for 2025? How will these targets will be achieved?
  • Reasons behind the negative growth in imports and exports of India and declined trade deficit
  • major importance for items in the services sector of India
  • World Bank report regarding international remittances and India’s ranking.
  • Calculating current account deficit (CAD) of India

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/uROpI7hnS-Y

BES163-P2: Capital Account, FDI, FII, E-Commerce, Mauritius DTAA

BES163_P02_Capital_Account_Mauritius_DTAA.mp4

  • difference between foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI)
  • What is composite cap in foreign investment?
  • Foreign investment limits for various category of businesses
  • e-commerce companies of India: marketplace model and inventory based companies- meaning and provisions for foreign investment limits.
  • Trends in foreign domestic investment flows in India last 15 years:source-country wise,  sector-wise and state -wise
  • Amendments in the India-Mauritius Double tax avoidance treaty to stop the misuse of round tripping and provisions for grand-fathering and GAAR application.
  • Recent trends in FDI and FPI inflows.
  • Total Balance of Payment, how it changes RBI’s foreign exchange reserves?

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/RT7-g-W9BnI

BES163-P3: Helicopter Money, Rules of Monetary Policy, ECB-framework

BES163_P03_ECB_Helicopter_Money.mp4

  • NEER, REER, exchange rate trends of Indian currency
  • Impact of Liquidity on Rupee-dollar exchange rate
  • Hawkish and dovish monetary policies across the world and their impact on dollar exchange rate.
  • Dr.Raghuram Rajan’s paper on rules of International monetary policy.
  • RBIs new framework on external commercial borrowing (ECB)-2015; Budget-2016 taxation provisions to encourage foreign investors in this.
  • International Finance Corporation and its Masala Bonds and Maharaja Bonds
  • World Bank’s International Debt statistics 2016, and observations on India’s debt portfolio.
  • Helicopter money: meaning, mechanism, how is it different from OMO and Quantitative Easing? Why it is in news?

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/KZ-5qZ8MH_g
Next part: WTO-Nairobi summit, IMF-Reforms, P2P Lending, P-Notes KYC