This book covers three main areas, namely the pharmaceuticals industry, the telecommunications sector and the banking sector, with a focus on manufacturing and service. It includes a brief analysis of all three, particularly in the context of their evolution, current status, cost efficiency, and growth projections. The Indian pharmaceuticals market is the third-largest in the world in terms of volume and thirteenth-largest in terms of value; further, India is the world's largest provider of generic drugs. India is currently the second-largest telecommunications market and has the third-highest number of internet users in the world. At the same time, the deregulation of foreign direct investment (FDI) norms has made banking one of the fastest-growing sectors and a top-five employment opportunity generator in the country. Further, the efficiency and profitability of India's banking sector has assumed prime importance due to intense competition, customer demands and bank reforms. The book gauges the relative performance of the Indian banks based on certain key parameters. It then concisely presents the efficiency results, vividly portraying the industry's current status and serving as a ready reference that will be valuable to students, academics and industry experts alike.

Focuses on three major manufacturing and service industries and analyses their evolution, current status, cost efficiency, and growth projections Describes the top firms in each industry in an easy-to-understand style Uses an efficiency analysis of firms to assess the status of the industry

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Dr. Bhaskar Bagchi works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Commerce, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, India. He has teaching and research experience of more than eighteen years and is an active reviewer of many reputed international journals. He has published books on finance and has several publications in some of the leading finance journals of the world. His areas of interests include corporate finance, capital markets and financial econometrics. Dr. Susmita Chatterjee is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department at the Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, Kolkata (affiliated to the University of Calcutta) and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Commerce of the university for supervising doctoral students. She graduated from Lady Brabourne College and completed her M.Sc. in Economics at Calcutta University through Presidency College, and later received her M.Phil. from Calcutta University, from whereshe also obtained her PhD. Before joining the university, she was pursuing postdoctoral research at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. She has published a number of papers, book chapters and a books with leading publishers such as Springer, Emerald, Sage, and Palgrave Macmillan. Her research interest is in industrial organisation, applied microeconomics, applied development economics. Raktim Ghosh is presently pursuing his PhD research in the Department of Commerce, University of Gour Banga. He is also serving as a guest faculty in the Department of Commerce, Maharaja Srischandra College. He graduated from Heramba Chandra College and completed his M.com from the Department of Commerce, University of Calcutta. He also pursued M.Phil in Commerce from the University of Calcutta. His research interest area includes capital market, mutual funds, stress, macro economic developments and other contemporary issues in the subject. Dr. Dhrubaranjan Dandapat is a Professor in the Department of Commerce, University of Calcutta and the Honorary Secretary of Indian Accounting Association Research Foundation (IAARF). Formerly he was Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Social Welfare and Business Management, University of Calcutta and also the Director of Calcutta University - Calcutta Stock Exchange Centre for Excellence in Financial Markets (CU-CSE, CEFM). He has successfully supervised many PhD scholars. Being a teacher and researcher of international repute he has several international publications and has attended and chaired sessions in numerous conferences in India and abroad.

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Chapter 1. Brief Note on Data Envelopment Analysis.- Chapter 2. Telecom: case studies on selected service providers.- Chapter 3. Banking: case studies of selected banks.- Chapter 4. Pharmaceutical: case studies of selected pharma companies.