Economic Explorations
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223High-Tech Exports & Indian Industry: A Tale of Transformation and Challenge
The Core Question Can Indian companies compete globally in knowledge-intensive industries? This comprehensive study examines how Indian firms performed in high-tech exports...
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236The Mineral Bride: A Century-Long Tale of Resources, Rights and Regional Development
Prologue: A Marriage of Convenience Imagine a wedding where the bride gets poorer while the groom grows increasingly wealthy. This isn’t a...
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214Going Global: The Rise of Small & Medium Indian Companies as International Players
From family-owned manufacturers to innovative software firms, India’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly making their mark on the global stage....
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218Growing Global: How Stronger Patent Laws Boosted India’s Pharmaceutical Exports
A surprising discovery about intellectual property rights challenges conventional wisdom about developing countries The Conventional Wisdom Was Wrong For years, experts assumed...
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278From Local Players to Global Hunters: Should Indian Pharma Companies Buy or Build?
The Strategic Dilemma Imagine you’re leading an Indian pharmaceutical company ready to go global. You face a crucial decision: Should you build...
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254From Copycats to Global Champions: The Remarkable Journey of Indian Pharma
The Big Picture: David Becomes Goliath Imagine transforming from a small importer of medicines to becoming the world’s pharmacy – that’s India’s...
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194Not All Foreign Investment is Created Equal: Rethinking How We Measure FDI’s Impact on Host Countries
The Traditional Story Gets Complicated For decades, economists and policymakers have treated foreign direct investment (FDI) like a homogeneous force – assuming...
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244From Local to Global: The Rise of Indian Service Companies Going International
A Hidden Success Story In the 1990s, something remarkable but largely unnoticed was happening in India’s business landscape. Indian service companies –...
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248Who Gets Ahead? How Trade and Technology are Reshaping India’s Manufacturing Jobs
Imagine walking through an Indian manufacturing plant in the 1990s, then fast-forwarding to the 2000s. You’d notice dramatic changes – not just...
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490Building Modern India: From Independence to Global Power – A Journey Through Research and Ideas
Prologue: Delhi, 1955 Picture a 19-year-old student at Punjab University, deeply absorbed in economic textbooks. Outside his window, a newly independent India...