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Pharmaceutical Industry and Public Policy in Post-reform India, Paperback / softback Book

Pharmaceutical Industry and Public Policy in Post-reform India Paperback / softback

Part of the Critical Political Economy of South Asia series

Paperback / softback

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This book examines the impact of economic reforms in India on the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines.

It traces the changing production and trade pattern of the industry, research and development (R&D) preferences and strategies of Indian pharmaceutical firms, patent system alongside pricing policy measures and their shortcomings.

It also analyses the public health financing system in India driven largely by out-of-pocket expenditure — about 60 per cent — and characterised by very high share of medicines in total health expenditure.

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