Corrado1 Abstract India has charted its own intellectual property (IP) path over the last 35 years, attempting to foster the growth of a domestic pharmaceutical industry and access to medicine while, more recently, also addressing the requirements of the international IP regime. Multinational companies (MNCs) have responded to India’s movement towards compliance with the W TO intellectual property agreement, TRIPS, by increasing the quantity and quality of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the areas
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THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Centre for Risk & Insurance Studies Privatization of the Insurance Market in India: From the British Raj to Monopoly Raj to Swaraj Tapen Sinha CRIS Discussion Paper Series – 2002.X Privatization of the Insurance Market in India: From the British Raj to Monopoly Raj to Swaraj by Tapen Sinha, Ph.D. ING Comercial America Chair Professor Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Mexico City, Mexico and Professor, School of Business University of Nottingham
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the IKEA group had 253 stores in 24 countries. IKEA sales reached 21.2 billion Euros in 2008 showing an increase of 7%. The biggest sales countries are Germany, USA, France, UK and Sweden. it has also opened its stores in India. Swedish company IKEA to invest $600 million in India. | | IKEA carries a range of 9,500 products, including home furniture and accessories. Low prices are one of the cornerstones of the IKEA concept and help to make customers want to buy from IKEA. Its success in the
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Assignment One The decoupling debate is back! Indeed, the notion that the health of emerging markets is no longer determined by the ups-and-downs in developed economies -- or even that emerging markets may be insulated from global shocks -- has been in vogue of late. Last fall, the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing stock market crash dragged down emerging markets: decoupling seemed dead. Now, pundits who recently mocked the hypothesis are starting to wonder aloud if there might after
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CITIBANK INDIA Industry: Banking Financial services Owner Citigroup Founded 1902 Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Profit After Tax INR 3422 crores (fiscal year ended March 31, 2015) Total Income INR 13490 crores (fiscal year ended March 31, 2015) Number of employees 7,500 Citibank financials: https://www.online.citibank.co.in/portal/newgen/home/Website-Citibank-Financials-2015
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Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island of 1.3 million people, is one of Africa’s most prosperous and stable economies. It has a diverse population: descendants of workers from India, who were brought to work in the sugar-cane fields, account for about 70% of the population; the remainder includes Africans, Creoles, Chinese, and Europeans. At independence in 1968, the country was poor, with a per capita income of around US$260. However, the government has successfully diversified the economy into textiles
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after two Bear Stearns Hedge Funds collapsed resulting to subprime mortgage crisis. This financial crisis reintroduced private defaults, bank failures, massive layoffs and credit crunch to the world. The financial crisis was as a result of too much foreign money from Asian countries like China flowing into the economy of US (Savona, Kirton, & Oldani, 2011). Causes of the Financial Crisis Creation of too much money by the banks had led to the crisis. New money is created when the banks give loans
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Current state of Indian Economy August 2010 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry New Delhi Highlights – August 2010 July 2010 overall industrial growth numbers continued on the path of buoyancy. The high growth in the overall industrial output was solely on account of the heavyweight manufacturing sector. The other two sectors also remained in the positive zone in July and during the period from April – July 2010. However, the growth in output was lower than the growth seen
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BANKING IN INDIA: Without a sound and effective banking system in India it cannot have a healthy economy. The banking system of India should not only be hassle free but it should be able to meet new challenges posed by the technology and any other external and internal factors. For the past three decades India's banking system has several outstanding achievements to its credit. The most striking is its extensive reach. It is no longer confined to only metropolitans or cosmopolitans in India. In fact
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UTV Software Communications Ltd (UTV), one of the most important integrated global media and entertainment companies in India, has seen recent rapid expansion, both in existing home business and into new offshore operations. The CEO Ronnie Screwvala was driving the company on a double track: On one hand he had started three verticals in India in order to diversify the offer and take advantage from the high-growth sectors opportunities; On the other hand he wanted to expand worldwide the business
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