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The State and Economic Development

ICSE · Class 10 · Economic Application

Summary of The State and Economic Development for ICSE Class 10 Economic Application. Key concepts, important points, and chapter overview.

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Overview

State intervention in the economy became important when laissez faire policy failed to solve major economic problems. Adam Smith supported non-interference by government, but the Great Depression of 1929-33 showed that a passive state could not maintain stability. Keynes argued that the state must p

Key Concepts

Laissez faire means government non

Laissez faire means government non-interference in trade and industry. This policy lost importance after the Great Depression, when economic stability

The private sector consists of economic

The private sector consists of economic activities owned and controlled by individuals and private companies. It is mainly guided by profit motive.

The public sector consists of economic

The public sector consists of economic activities owned and controlled by the government. It is mainly guided by public welfare.

The state promotes industrialisation

The state promotes industrialisation, infrastructure, capital formation, agricultural development, reduction in inequalities, reduction in regional di

Fiscal policy is a government initiated

Fiscal policy is a government initiated measure to alter tax rates and government spending to create a macro level impact on the economy.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the meaning of private sector and public sector
  • Explain why state intervention became necessary in economic development
  • Learn the main instruments of state intervention: fiscal policy and monetary policy
  • Understand taxes, their kinds, and the difference between impact, shifting, and incidence
  • Classify taxes as proportional, progressive, regressive, and digressive

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