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Brief Contents
FOREWORD xvii
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION xviii
PREFACE xix
ABOUT THE AUTHOR xxi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xxii
1 Business Environment 1
2 Industrial Policy 29
3 Industrial Licensing 66
4 India’s Monetary and Fiscal Policy 88
5 Economic Trends 127
6 Stock Exchanges in India 148
7 National Income 173
8 Industrialisation and Economic Development 205
9 Foreign Trade Policy and Balance of Payments 239
10 Inflation 258
11 Human Development 297
12 Rural Development 335
13 Problems of Growth 362
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