 Broadening Access to Medicines and Healthcare in IndiaPrabodh Malhotra Chapter 8 in Impact of TRIPS in India, 2010, pp 141-171 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract 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. Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Health Expenditure; Public Expenditure; Total Health Expenditure; Public Health Expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29074-7_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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