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Unit 1 : Nature & Structure
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 1.
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Layers of Business Environment.
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 2.
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Interaction between Economic and Non-Economic Environment.
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 3.
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Structure of International Environment for Business.
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 4.
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Determinants of Domestic Macroeconomic Environment.
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 5.
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Micro-Environment of a firm.
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 6.
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Factors producing changes in Business Environment.
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Unit 2 : Indicators of Macro Environment
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 1.
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Leading, Concurrent and Lagging indicators of Domestic Macro environment .
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 2.
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Alternative measures of National Product.
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 3.
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Inflation & its Measurement.
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 4.
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Link between Money Supply, Inflation rate and National Income.
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 5.
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Effects of Exchange rate variations.
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 6.
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Social Indicators of Business Environment.
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Unit 3 : Business Environment Risk
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 1.
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Risk classification in Business Environment.
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 2.
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Techniques for assessing Environment Risk.
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 3.
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Country Risk.
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 4.
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Political Risk.
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 5.
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Impact of Country Risk Factors.
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 6.
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Strategic Adjustments to Environment Risk.
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Unit 4 : Corporate Social Responsibility
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 1.
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Dimension of Corporate Social Responsibility.
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 2.
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Corporate Social Responsibility vs Profitability.
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 3.
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Returns to Corporate Social Responsibility.
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 4.
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Level of Corporate Social Responsibility.
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 5.
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CSR : Some Counter-Points.
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Unit 5 : Monetary Policy and Business Environment
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 1.
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Monetary policy goals, targets and indicators.
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 2.
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Alternative Designs of monetary policy.
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 3.
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Monetary Policy Instruments.
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 4.
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Open market operations (OMO).
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 5.
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Effects of Monetary policy.
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 6.
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International effects of monetary policy.
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Unit 6 : Fiscal Policy and Business Environment
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 1.
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Dimensions of Fiscal Policy.
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 2.
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Taxonomy of Taxation.
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 3.
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Impact of taxation on a Business firm's.
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 4.
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Public Expenditure.
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 5.
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Classification of Public Debt.
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 6.
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Effects of Public Debt.
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Unit 7 : India's Resource Environment
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 1.
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Estimates of India's Natural Resource Reserves, 2006.
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 2.
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Forest Resources & Policy.
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 3.
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Selected indicators of human Development in India.
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 4.
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Vital Demographic statistics.
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 5.
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Employment across different sectors.
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 6.
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Workforce participation pattern and rates, 2005.
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 7.
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Institutional Infrastructure for technological Development in India.
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 8.
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Contd. from 7th exhibit.
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 9.
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Link between Technology and Competitiveness.
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Unit 8 : India's Current Growth Environment
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 1.
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Trends in GDP growth and capital formation in recent years.
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 2.
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Growth rates of GDP by Industry of origin.
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 3.
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Trends in Volume of Exports and Imports.
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 4.
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Compositional Trends in Exports and Imports.
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 5.
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Exchange Rate movements of the Rupee.
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 6.
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Trends in nominal and real effective exchange rates.
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 7.
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Trends in Volume and Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves.
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 8.
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Trends in Volume and Composition of Net Foreign Investment Inflow.
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 9.
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Inflationary environment in recent years.
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10.
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 Trends & Patterns of Taxation in post reform years.
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 11.
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Relative shares of direct and indirect taxes in gross tax.
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 12.
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Trends & Patterns of Central Public Expenditure in the post reform years.
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Unit 9 : Economic Reforms
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 1.
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Indicators and Trends of Economic Liberalisation.
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 2.
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Link between Liberalisation and GDP growth.
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 3.
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Alternatives Privatization Routes.
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 4.
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Macro-indicators of Globalisation.
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 5.
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Industry level Indicators of Globalisation.
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 6.
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How Globalisation affects Economic Development.
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 7.
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Current Corporate concerns About to Economic - Reforms.
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Unit 10 : Current Fiscal Environment
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 1.
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Composition of Direct and Indirect Taxes.
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 2.
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Custom Duty Structure.
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 3.
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Excise Duty Structures.
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 4.
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Mechanism of Value Added Tax.
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 5.
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Progress of VAT System.
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 6.
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Corporate Opportunities in the Public Expenditure Programmes.
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 7.
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Structure of Union Budget and alternative Deficit Concepts.
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 8.
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Types of Public Debt.
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 9.
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Burden of Central Public Debt in post reform years.
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10.
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 Fiscal Environment and the Corporate Sector.
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Unit 11 : Current Fiscal Environment
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 1.
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Structure of the Overall Financial Sector.
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 2.
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Money and Capital Market Instruments.
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 3.
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Recent trends and development in Indian Money Market.
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 4.
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Regulatory Framework of SEBI.
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 5.
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Recent capital market developments.
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Unit 12 : Current Fiscal Environment
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 1.
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Consumer Rights and Duties.
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 2.
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Legal Instruments for promotion of consumer interest and justice.
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 3.
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Institutional arrangements for consumer protection under CPA, 1986.
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Unit 13 : Current Fiscal Environment
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 1.
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Indicators of Technological Development.
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 2.
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Taxonomy of Technological Development.
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 3.
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Link between technology & competition.
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 4.
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Incentive Structure for promotion of Technological Development in India.
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 5.
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Salient features of India's Science & technology policy.
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Unit 14 : MRTP Act & Competition Act, 2002
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 1.
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Enforcement machinery for MRTP ACT.
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 2.
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Monopolistic Trade practices (MTP) and their Control.
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 3.
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Forms of Restrictive Trade Practices ( RTPs) and their Control.
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 4.
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Types of Unfair Trade Practices (UTPs) and their Control.
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 5.
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Major provisions of the competitive Act, 2002.
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Unit 15 : Industrial Environment
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 1.
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Pattern of Industrial Growth in recent post reform years.
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 2.
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Contribution of major industry segments in registered manufacturing sector.
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 3.
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Major Industrial Policy reforms.
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 4.
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Share of Private and Public sectors in NET capital stock.
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 5.
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Milestones in Public Sector reforms.
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 6.
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Growth and Profitability trends in the Central Public Sector Undertakings.
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 7.
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Trends in Disinvestment in Central Public sector undertakings.
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 8.
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Major routes to Disinvestment & Privatisation.
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Unit 16 : Small Scale Industries
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 1.
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Growth and Performance of SSI in Recent post-reform years.
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 2.
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Institutional support structure for SSI.
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 3.
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Contd. from 2nd exhibit.
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 4.
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Recent policy measures to promote the growth of small enterprises.
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Unit 17 : Services Sector
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 1.
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Trend and Pattern of Growth of Major service segments.
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 2.
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Growth of services vis-a vis agriculture, Industry and overall Economy.
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 3.
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Recent Trends in Service Exports.
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