Curriculum India's Money, Markets & Policy
India's Money, Markets & Policy
The Reserve Bank, the rupee, the stock exchanges, and the policies that move India's financial system.
- The Reserve Bank of India: What It Does An introduction to India's central bank and the everyday tools it uses to steer the economy. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Rupee: History and Exchange Rate Basics How India's currency evolved, and how the concept of an exchange rate actually works. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Stock Markets: BSE and NSE How India's two major stock exchanges work and why they matter to the wider economy. 📄 Read-aloud
- Demonetization 2016: What Happened and Why A neutral look at India's sudden 2016 withdrawal of its largest banknotes, its stated goals, and its effects. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Explained How India replaced a patchwork of separate state taxes with a single unified tax on goods and services. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Banking Sector: Public vs Private Banks The difference between India's government-owned banks and privately owned banks, and why both exist side by side. 📄 Read-aloud
- UPI: How India Built a Digital Payments System How India's Unified Payments Interface let people send money instantly between banks using just a phone. 📄 Read-aloud
- Microfinance in India: Small Loans, Big Impact How very small loans to low-income borrowers, often through group lending, aim to expand economic opportunity. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) What government-owned companies are, why India built so many of them, and why some are now being sold off. 📄 Read-aloud
- Priority Sector Lending and Financial Inclusion How India requires banks to direct a share of their lending toward agriculture, small business, and underserved groups. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Budget Process: How the Union Budget Works How India's central government plans, presents, and passes its annual spending and revenue plan. 📄 Read-aloud
- Inflation and Monetary Policy in India How India measures inflation and how the RBI uses an inflation target to guide its interest rate decisions. 📄 Read-aloud
- Foreign Direct Investment in India How foreign companies invest directly in India, why India courts this investment, and how it differs from portfolio investment. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Social Welfare Programs (Public Distribution System, MGNREGA) How India's food subsidy system and rural employment guarantee work to support low-income households. 📄 Read-aloud
- Gold in Indian Households: Culture Meets Economics Why Indian households hold so much gold, and how that cultural tradition shapes the wider economy. 📄 Read-aloud
- Mutual Funds and India's Growing SIP Culture How mutual funds work and why systematic investment plans have reshaped how ordinary Indians save and invest. 📄 Read-aloud
- LIC and India's Insurance Sector The outsized role of the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation in India's insurance market, and how the sector has opened to private and foreign competition. 📄 Read-aloud
- Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) in India How NBFCs extend credit alongside traditional banks in India, why they matter for financial inclusion, and the risks they can pose. 📄 Read-aloud
- Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets: India's Regulatory Approach How India has approached cryptocurrency with heavy taxation and regulatory caution rather than an outright ban, and why. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Indian Bond Market and G-Secs How India's government borrows through securities, who buys them, and how retail investors can now access government bonds directly. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Foreign Exchange Reserves What India's large foreign exchange reserves are, why the RBI built them up after past crises, and how they are used. 📄 Read-aloud
- Small Savings Schemes: PPF, NSC and Sukanya Samriddhi How India's government-backed small savings schemes work, their interest rates and tax benefits, and who they suit. 📄 Read-aloud
- SEBI: Guarding India's Markets How the Securities and Exchange Board of India was created after market scandals, what it regulates, and how its rules protect investors. 📄 Read-aloud