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Broadening Access to Medicines and Healthcare in India

In: Impact of TRIPS in India

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  • Prabodh Malhotra

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There is a significant part of the Indian community that contributes to the economic activity such as rickshaw-pullers but hardly gets a mention in the literature. This group of people is too rich to belong to the BPL families and too poor to belong to the middle-class Indians. The 300 million strong middle-class (M-class) Indians are the primary target for marketers and often acknowledged in the global media. The around 3501 million estimated poor, who live below the poverty line of $1-a-day (BPL1), have drawn worldwide attention because of their significant size in contrast to India’s economic success in recent years. In between the M-class and the BPL1, there are around 450 million Indians, who live on around US$2-a-day (BPL2). The population in the BPL2 group and lower end of middle class group mostly get into irrecoverable debts in health crisis. India’s healthcare would be incomplete without addressing the needs of all three segments of the community.

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  • Prabodh Malhotra, 2010. "Broadening Access to Medicines and Healthcare in India," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Impact of TRIPS in India, chapter 8, pages 141-171, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29074-7_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230290747_8
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