MECE-104 EM 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

Description

MASTER OF ARTS
(ECONOMICS)
ASSIGNMENTS 2025-26
Fourth Semester Courses
(For learners appearing in term-end exams in June
2026 and December 2026 Sessions)

MECE-104: ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL SECTOR
AND ENVIRONMENT
Tutor Marked Assignment
Course Code: MECE-104
Assignment Code: MECE-104/AST/2025-26

Note: Answer all the questions. While questions in Section A carry 20 marks each (to be answered in about 500 words each) those in Section B carry 12 marks each (to be answered in about 300 words each). In the case of numerical questions word limits do not apply.

Section A

1) Discuss the various situations of ‘market failure’ leading to environmental degradation.

2) Discuss the significance of ‘efficiency wage’ in contributing to health and productivity of workers.

Section B

3) Explain how ‘poverty’ is not the sole determinant of malnutrition

. 4) Specify the fundamental challenges of using the non-renewable resources optimally.

5) Derive the results for the optimal use of renewable resources under the discrete and continuous time frames.

6) Describe the concept of ‘quasi markets’ in the provisioning of public services.

7) Derive the conditions of optimality for buying health insurance in cases of absence/presence of free riders.