UPSC PRELIMS 2023

ECONOMY - All Repeated Themes and Repeated Topics

(2013 - 2022)

Repeated Themes Repeated Topics Questions

● Money and
Banking ➔ Assets & Liability of a Commercial
System In India bank (2019)

➔ Legal tender money (2018)

➔ Land Development Banks (2013)

➔ Regional Rural banks in India (2013)

➔ National Bank for Agriculture and

Rural Development (NABARD) (2013)

➔ Priority Sector Lending (2013)

➔ Basel – 3 Norms (2015)

➔ Bank Rate (2013, 2015)

➔ Marginal Standing Facility Rate (2014)

➔ Demand Deposit and Time Deposit

(2013, 2014)

➔ Payment Banks (2016)

➔ Non-Profitable Assets (NPAs) - (2016)

➔ Core Banking Solutions (2016)

➔ Small Finance Banks (2017)

➔ Capital Adequacy Ratio of a Bank

(CAR) (2018)

➔ Marginal Cost of Funds based

Lending Rate (MCLR) (2016)

➔ Bank Board Bureau (2019, 2022)

➔ Chairman of public sector banks

(2019) - Pyq Analysis Of BBB

➔ Reserve Bank Of India and its roles in

 Banking System (2019)

➔ District Central Cooperative Banks

(2020)

➔ Urban Co-operative Banks in India

(2021)

➔ Aggregate money supply (2020)

➔ Money Multiplier (2019, 2021)

➔ Short and Long Term Finance -

Commercial Paper, Call Money, Bills
(2018, 2020)

➔ Open Market Operations (2013, 2015)

➔ Fiscal Deficit (2017)

➔ Monetary Policy Committee (2017)

➔ The Financial Responsibility and

Budget Management Act,2003 (2018)

➔ RBI’s role in money supply (2019)

➔ Cash Reserve Ratio-CRR (2019)

➔ Statutory Liquidity Ratio-SLR (2015,

2019)

➔ Statutory Reserve Requirements

(2014)

➔ Interest Coverage Ratio (2020)

➔ Monetary Policy (2020)

➔ Economic Contagion (2020)

➔ Economic Recession (2021)

● Inflation and
Unemployment ➔ Controlling Inflation (2015, 2022)

➔ Demand-Pull Inflation (2021)

➔ Most inflationary in its effects (2013,

2021)

➔ Inflation Benefits (2013)

➔ GDP and Unemployment (2018)

➔ Disguised unemployment (2013)

● Digital Payment
/ Economy in ➔ Digital India (2018)
India ➔ Bitcoins (2016)

➔ National Payments Corporation of

India-NPCI (2017, 2018)

➔ Bharat Interface for Money-BHIM

(2018)

➔ Unified Payment Interface-UPI (2017)

➔ Merchant Discount Rate- MDR (2018)

➔ Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) (2022)

● Taxation
System in India ➔ Sales Tax in India (2014)

➔ Base Erosion and Profit Shifting

(2016)

➔ Tax and Non-Tax Revenue (2017)

➔ Goods and Service Tax-GST (2017)

● Investment and
Infrastructure ➔ Venture Capital (2014)

➔ National Investment and Infrastructure

Fund-NIIF (2017)

➔ Foreign Direct Investments (2021)

➔ Public Investment Model in Agriculture

(2020)

➔ External commercial borrowings

(2022)

● Reports and
Indices ➔ Index of 8 core Industries (2015)

➔ Global Competitiveness Report (2019)

➔ Consumer price Index number for

Industrial Workers (2015)

➔ Ease of doing Business Report (2016)

➔ Global Financial Stability Report

(2016)

➔ Global Economic Prospects Report

(2015)

➔ Wholesale Price Index (WPI) and

Consumer Price Index (CPI) (2020)

➔ Inflation Indexed Bonds (2022)

➔ Convertible Bonds (2022)

➔ Credit rating agencies (2022)

● Balance Of
Payments and ➔ Convertibility of Rupee (2015)
Foreign
Exchange ➔ Under-valuation of Currency (2019)
Reserves
➔ External Debt (2019)

➔ Devaluation of Currency (2021, 2022)

➔ Composition of Foreign Exchange

Reserves (2013)

➔ Special Drawing Rights (2016)

➔ U.S federal reserve (2022)

➔ Nominal Effective Exchange Rate

(2022)

● RBI and its

functions ➔ Role in Inflation Control & Money
Supply (2019, 2020, 2022)

➔ Governor of RBI (2021)

➔ Regulates Commercial Bank (2013),

Lender Of Last Resort (2021)

➔ Storage of Payment System Data’,

 popularly known as data diktat (2019)

➔ Monetary Policy Role (2020)

➔ Marginal Standing facility rate (2014)

➔ Net Demand and Time liabilities

(2014)

➔ Open market Operations (2015)

● Economic
Planning in ➔ Five-year plans its objectives (2014,
India 2019)

● India Relation
with other ➔ India and WTO (2020)
Financial ➔ AIIB (2019)
Institutions
(2022) ➔ India and World Bank, ASEAN, IMF
(2016)

● Various
Investment ➔ Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme (2016)
methods ➔ Masala Bonds (2016)

➔ Government Securities (2021)

➔ Treasury Bills (2018,2021)

➔ Government Bonds (2021)

● Financial /
Regulatory ➔ SEBI and its roles (2018)
Institutions
 ➔ RBI and its roles (2014)

➔ NPCI (2017)

● Economic
Survey and ➔ Deficit Budget (2015, 2016)
Union Budget ➔ Capital Budget (2016)

➔ Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme (2016)

➔ Steadily increased / Decreased Trend

(2017, 2018)
Acts and Schemes