Indian telecom services industry has been witnessing a stupendous growth since 1990s. Over the years, subscriber base has grown steadily and it crossed 950 million marks in March 2012. India with second largest subscriber base also offers one of the lowest call tariffs in the world. But in the euphoria of high growth in services, the equipment manufacturing received least priority. India mainly...

The initiative of Indian Government to allow 100% FDI in single brand retailing and 51% in multi brand retailing has, with a few affirmations, raised many eye brows. Is it recolonization in the post independence era or a class struggle in the words of Karl Marx? This paper attempts at studying the economic effect of ‘FDI in retail’ on various sectors of the economy drawing the cue from the expe...

It is commonly believed that the business environment in developing countries does not allow productive technology-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, we draw on the experience of Indian software firms where entrepreneurial growth has belied these predictions. This paper argues that the business models chosen by Indian firms were those that best aligned the country’s abundant lab...

The financial sector in India – banking, capital markets, insurance, mutual funds, etc. – has changed during the decade of reform of the nineties. Although many improvements have been effected, this paper argues that the scope of many of these changes has been relatively narrow and predominantly mechanistic. It is not surprising, therefore, that the outcomes of these actions have not been as fa...

By influencing the supply of trained human resources, the dental education sector can play a significant role in influencing policy goals of ensuring good quality and equitable access to oral health services in developing countries. Our research goal was to assess quantitatively the size of the Indian dental education sector, its growth over time, and the implications of this growth for equity ...

The subject matter is divided into ten sections and 53 chapters, which have been largely re-written. There are special chapters on the minor surgery of the eye, throat, and ear, on urine testing, the administration of anesthetics. X-ray examination, dental surgery, and syphilis, with special reference to the Wassermann reaction. Much time and labour have evidently been expended on this edition,...

In the paper an attempt was made to study the performance of Indian Banks with the help of CAMEL rating system, taking eighteen banks (eight being Private Sector Banks and ten being Public Sector Banks) over the period of ten years from (2004 to 2013) and then finding out their efficiency of banks with the help of DEA in terms of gaining confidence from investors and ranking them accordingly. O...