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Indian Institute of Foreign Trade 2014 Solved Paper

Directions for questions 63-67 : Read the following inormation on 'Sectoral Trends in Mergers & Acquisitions in India (2001-02 to 2006-07)' given in Tables below and answer the questions.
Table 1 : Sector wise Number of 'Mergers &Acquisitions'

Sectors	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Food &Beverage	113	77	77	74	63	61
Textile	57	59	59	64	77	55
Chemicals	134	98	112	99	79	62
Drugs &Pharma	64	60	44	50	60	72
Cement	11	7	8	22	0	0
IT & Telecom	153	114	84	80	109	103
Diversified	15	8	13	4	7	5
FinancialServices	194	201	160	116	193	177
Other Services	297	280	287	281	271	293
MiscManufacturing	31	36	31	35	35	24
Non MetallicMineralProducts	32	24	27	27	47	34

Table 2 : Sector wise Number of 'Mergers'

Sectors	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Food &Beverage	17	23	10	19	20	8
Textile	7	7	8	11	21	23
Chemicals	27	15	12	23	24	15
Drugs &Pharma	6	17	14	10	15	12
Cement	0	2	1	3	0	0
IT & Telecom	19	19	13	16	17	12
Diversified	1	0	1	0	0	0
FinancialServices	91	107	87	41	75	51
Other Services	90	92	105	81	61	83
MiscManufacturing	3	13	0	4	11	3
Non MetallicMineralProducts	3	5	1	5	48	11

Question : 65

Total: 118

For how many sectors merger activity (measured by number of mergers) is more in the first 3 years as compared to the last 3 years?

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