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Over the past 40 years or so the Indian pharmaceutical sector witnessed rapid growth and transformation. From a mere volume of just Rs. 10 core in 1947, the industry registered a sales turnover of about US $ 5.5 billion in 2004 with an annual growth rate of about 17%. The flexible provisions of the Patent Act of 1970 and other supportive policies of the Government of India played an instrumenta...

# Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721302, India. * Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research, Formerly College of Pharmacy, (University of Delhi), Pushp Vihar, Sector-III, New Delhi-110017, India. @Author for Correspondence: A. K. Banthia, Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute Of Technology, Kharagpur721302, INDIA. email: ajitbanthia2000@yaho...

This paper uses aggregate-level data, as well as casestudies, to trace out the evolution of some key structural features of the Indian economy, relating both to the agricultural and the informal industrial sector. These aggregate trends are used to infer: (a) the dominant relations of production under which the vast majority of the Indian working people labour, and (b) the predominant ways in w...

The Indian telecom sector has been met with competitive pressure after deregulation. Many key developments took place in the early 2000. The telecom service providers are expected to struggle with complex issues of new technologies, and value added services through continuous innovations. Though many service industries are affected by the churn phenomenon, the problem is extremely acute in the ...

Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun 4-kalidas road, 248001 Uttarakhand, India Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, 247667 Uttarakhand, India Snow and Avalanche Studies Establishment (SASE), Chandigarh Himparisar, Sector 37-A, 160017 Chandigarh, India Institute for Computational Earth System Science, Ellison Hall 6808, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in Indian economy as more than 50% of country’s GDP is contributed by them. SMEs are also the backbone of manufacturing sector as they form critical upstream supply network to the large-scale firms and OEMs. Like their counterparts in other regions of world, Indian SME are characterized with family based businesses with loose manageABSTRACT

The Indian economy has observed significant trade reforms since the mid 1980s, and the Indian manufacturing sector has rapidly increased its integration with the world economy. In this paper, we ask the question: did the increased trade integration create or destroy jobs in the Indian manufacturing sector? We attempt to answer this question by employing a variety of methodological approaches – ...

S. Anantha Ramakrishna1,2‡ and Akhlesh Lakhtakia1,3§ Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Transit Campus, MGSIPA Complex, Sector-26, Chandigarh 160019, India NanoMM—Nanoengineered Metamaterials Group, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State ...

The inter-relationship between agriculture and industry has been a long debated issue in most of the developing countries. In the Indian context, the issue has acquired interest since the industrial stagnation of the mid 1960s. Over the years the Indian economy has undergone a structural change in its sectoral composition: from a primary agro-based economy during 1970s, the economy has emerged ...