Indian FDI Falls in Global Economic Crisis: Indian Multinationals Tread Cautiously

Privatization and FDI : the Indian experience

These may not have been as critical to the first round of reforms initiated in 1991 but they certainly came to loom larger in the second half of the nineties, by which time the growth rate threatened to taper off, as part of “second generation” reforms. Yes, we have managed to attain a growth rate of 6% plus, the reformers said, but if we wish to ratchet it up to 7-8%, we would need reforms suc...

Value Crisis in Contemporary Indian Society

The global biopharma industry and the rise of Indian drug multinationals: implications for Australian generics policy

This article provides a synopsis of the new dynamics of the global biopharma industry. The emergence of global generics companies with capabilities approximating those of 'big pharma' has accelerated the blurring of boundaries between the innovator and generics sectors. Biotechnology-based products form a large and growing segment of prescription drug markets and regulatory pathways for biogene...

Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth

Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile as a natural experiment. I...

Indian Food Crisis: Worst Is Not over

For the last few years India has been facing food crisis and as result, the prices of food grains have been on the very high side affecting the purchasing power of the rural and urban poor. As a result, Government’s policies and programmes in regard to reduction in poverty are being severely affected, leading to addition in the crisis. This year due lesser rain the crisis is becoming more sever...