Political, socio-economic and demographic overview
Mortality profile
The Indian health services
Expenditure and financing
Health sector reform
The pharmaceutical market in India
Main market trends
Export promotion
Regulation
Government procurement
Export subsidies
Good manufacturing practice for traditional medicines
Intellectual property rights protection
Patents
Copyrights
Trademarks
Delays with the new patent law
Patents, trade and development: new drug patents
Protecting the industry
What the market will bear
A boom in generic drugs
Industrial policy for pharmaceuticals
Fund to promote R&D
Policy objectives
India’s comparative advantages
Pharmaceutical pricing: national pharmaceutical pricing
Authority of India Price Control Order 1986 Basic approach
Coverage
Norms of pricing
NPPA India modification of Price Control Order 1986 (year 1994)
Pricing
Establishment and functions of National
Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) Drug pricing and objectives
Wholesale and retail margins
The future
Patent piracy
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources