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Articles 13021 through 13120 of 16647:
- Blind To Progress (Washington Post, Sebastian Mallaby, May 17, 2004)
When he was young and so was India, Jagdish Bhagwati left Oxford to work at the Indian Planning Commission. He was assigned to grapple with his country's biggest problem -- how to raise the incomes of the poorest -- and he soon came to the . . .
- Behind The Surprise In India (Washington Post, Jim Hoagland, May 16, 2004)
That question is code for this scribe's personal and disappointed reaction to the defeat of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's coalition government in India just as it threatened to become an important U.S. partner and a major player in global economics and politics.
- India's Election Is Wake-Up Call For Markets: William Pesek Jr. (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, May 14, 2004)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee's election slogan was ``India Shining.'' The millions who don't feel part of the magic retorted with their own: ``We won't feel ignored.''
- India's Election Results Defeat Pollsters (AlterNet, Editorial, The Alternet, May 14, 2004)
The lesson of India is a bizarre one for American poll watchers. At a time when elections seem to turn into a mere validation of the opinion polls, there is a sense of cheeky delight in how an electorate can actually hoodwink the pollsters.
- Changing Priorities (Business Line, Sanjeet K. Jha, May 14, 2004)
The outcome of the General Elections 2004 has taken most, if not all, by surprise. In the last few days the possibility of a hung Parliament was gaining ground. However, the magnitude of reversal of fortunes of the Congress alliance was unexpected.
- Micro-Level Reality Blanks Macro Illusions (Business Line, Ajit Ranade, May 14, 2004)
THE verdict was dramatic and stunning. Who would have expected that the `feel-good' factor would sour so decisively for the ruling alliance? If the exit polls got it wrong, it was not in the direction, but only in the magnitude
- The Dynasty Continues (Guardian (UK), editorial, Guardian UK, May 14, 2004)
The result came as a complete surprise to everyone but the people who matter in an Indian election. Not online India, the India of software developers, the India that produces 2 million graduates a year, the India with a runaway economy widely . . .
- Vajpayee’S Gamble Fails (Arab News, Correspondent or Reporter, May 14, 2004)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s gamble to call early elections backfired as Indians voted his right-wing coalition out of power.
- India's New Era (Washington Post, Salman Rushdie, May 14, 2004)
The fall of the Indian government is a huge political shock that strikingly echoes the only comparable electoral upset, the defeat of Indira Gandhi in 1977. Then as now, just about the entire commentariat was convinced that the incumbent would . . .
- Dynastic Duties In India (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 2004)
For the masses of poor in China who resent being left out of their nation's rush to riches, often the only choice is to revolt. In India, by contrast, the poor can vote.
- The Upset In India (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, May 14, 2004)
In 1998, WHEN Atal Bihari Vajpayee took the helm of the world's largest democracy, nobody predicted the extent of his success or his alignment with U.S. interests.
- Vajpayee Resigns After Poll Upset (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, May 13, 2004)
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has resigned after a stunning election upset, ending his nearly six years in power and setting the stage for the return of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.
- India's Pm Expected To Form Coalition (The Scotsman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 11, 2004)
INDIA’S prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, was expected to scrape back into power this week, after voting ended yesterday in the fifth and final stage of the country’s marathon election.
- A Democratic India Is Overtaking China (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, May 10, 2004)
India is now in the middle of what many Chinese would give their right arm for -- a general election. Yet China is the power that gets all the attention.
- Indian Voters To Decide Fate Of `Cement Shoes': Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, May 06, 2004)
Investors are shaking their heads in disbelief as each new round of voter surveys in India adds to growing concerns about the makeup of the country's next government and the direction of its economic policy.
- Indian Rupee Shapes Up As Asia's New Bellwether: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Apr 27, 2004)
The Indian rupee is not exactly a trader's favorite. It accounts for no more than half a percent of the global foreign exchange market.
- Congress Contests Bjp's Secular Image (AL-Ahram, Editorial, Al Ahram, Apr 09, 2004)
Vajpayee hopes that a growing "feel good factor" in India will help him win a second mandate as the world's largest democracy heads to the polls later this month, writes Jaideep Mukerji from New Delhi
- Is India The New China? Or A `Brown Paper Bag'?: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Apr 01, 2004)
When David Burton, the International Monetary Fund's top boss in Asia, was recently quizzed about the most important economic developments in his region, there was a winner tucked away among all the ho-hum questions.
- Gandhis Pin Their Hopes On New Boy (The Scotsman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 30, 2004)
Sweeping through dusty hamlets and accompanied by drum-beaters, the heir- apparent of India’s Gandhi-Nehru dynasty made his political debut yesterday.
- Ban Outsourcing? Bad Idea (Business Week Online, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 29, 2004)
The uproar in the U.S. over the outsourcing of jobs to India is deafening. On Mar. 5, California state Senator Joseph Dunn greeted an application for a tax exemption by Infosys Technologies Ltd.
- Rupee's Rise Means India Can Cut Interest Rates: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Mar 25, 2004)
With the rupee soaring to its highest level against the dollar in almost four years, Indian central bank Governor Y.V. Reddy has been presented a great opportunity.
- Powell Asks India To Open Its Markets (CNET.com, Dinesh C Sharma, Mar 16, 2004)
Offshore outsourcing figured prominently during talks between U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Indian leaders Tuesday, with the United States asking India to further open its markets.
- India Mustn't Devalue Best Business Brains: Mukherjee (Correct) (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Mar 02, 2004)
Here's lopsided social justice at its worst.
India is raising the subsidy for the nation's top 1,500 management students at a time when the government doesn't have enough money to provide blackboards to all primary schools.
- What India Can Do To Fight Outsourcing Backlash (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Feb 24, 2004)
So far, India has met the growing political backlash against jobs being outsourced to it by burying its head in the sand of righteous indignation and hoping that the hostility will go away after the U.S. presidential election in November.
- An India-Pakistan Peace Train (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Jan 12, 2004)
The world has seen many false peaks in the infrequent trek of India and Pakistan to settle the Himalayan-size issue of Kashmir. Leaders of both nations have often found more reasons not to budge than to create a peaceful South Asia for their . . .
- Advances Against Shares - Dividing The Multiplier Effect (Business Line, A. Seshan, Jan 08, 2004)
The latest raising of minimum margin from 40 per cent to 50 per cent on advances against shares means that the potential value of the multiplier is reduced from 2.5 to 2. One good aspect of the measure is that, unlike in the past instances, the rise in
- The Education Wars (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Jan 08, 2004)
While every other sector of the Indian economy is being deregulated, education is becoming one giant appendage of the Human Resource Development Ministry.
- Rbi Raises Gdp Growth Estimate To 7 Per Cent (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 08, 2004)
THE Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday revised upwards its overall GDP growth estimates for the current fiscal to 7 per cent, with a continued upward bias. This is against the 6.5-7 per cent estimate revealed during the mid-term review of the monetary and
- Gender Angle To An Epidemic (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
Specifically, indicators such as income, asset holdings, quality of housing, occupation and the level of educational achievement were all strongly and positively associated with awareness of HIV/AIDS. The study also found that the use of disposable ...
- Bull Fighting (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
The euphoria over the Indian economy extends to the sensitive index, which has crossed 6,000, and is still climbing. Some bullishness about the economy is indeed transient and will eventually come down to earth. Instances are the 8.4 per cent growth in
- Trauma Of Punjab’s Jobless (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Jan 07, 2004)
Punjab is faced with a gigantic challenge: how to give employment to 30 lakh jobless youth? Successive governments have never cared to know why the youth went berserk during the days of militancy. There is no policy worth the name to make them employable.
- Dollar's Descent Worries Financial, Commodity Markets (Business Line, BATUK GATHANI, Jan 07, 2004)
THERE is eerie nervousness in financial and commodity markets with no end in sight for dollar's descent, as the euro and pound sterling take the strain and both have soared to a new high against the dollar. The pound has risen by $1.80 against the ...
- Virbhadra Plans To Freeze Posts, Allowances (Indian Express, SURESH KHATTA, Jan 07, 2004)
Out to shed flab and tighten the belt, the cash-strapped Himachal Pradesh government proposes not only to freeze the number of posts of government employees but also their allowances. The other measures aimed at improving the financial health of the
- Bears Reappear, Sensex Sheds 95 Points (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2004)
The much-awaited correction pulls down stocks across the board; Sensex falls 205 points intra-day
- Opposition Can Still Do It (Hindu, Harish Khare , Jan 07, 2004)
Any Opposition party or a combination of Opposition parties that wants to displace the BJP-led Government will need to devise a strategy to exploit the thinness of the saffron spread.
- Welcome To Free Trade Zone (Indian Express, Navika Kumar, Jan 07, 2004)
The seven SAARC countries on Tuesday signed a treaty that would lead to free trade and movement of goods paving the way for South Asian economic Union along the lines of EU in future. The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) framework treaty signed by ...
- Shakespeare Plays With Economics (Business Line, D. Sambandhan, Jan 07, 2004)
"NO HUMAN capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing, but we may see more and more of it the longer we look," said Ruskin. This was internalised by Mr Frederick Turner, the Founder Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas, when he made
- Flying Kites And Soaring Fortunes (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Jan 07, 2004)
THIS is the kite-flying season in Gujarat and coming right after the Navratri Global Investors' Summit of September 2003, the State is readying for yet another business summit of the Vibrant variety. But, then, vibrancy seems to be the leit motif of the
- Huge Rush To Convert Shares Into Demat (Business Line, Virendra Verma, Jan 07, 2004)
AS stock indices are at their all-time highs, small and retail investors seem to be cashing in on the booming market by selling their holdings. A clear signal of this is seen in the conversion of large number of physical shares into demat form.
- India Can Shine If It Has A Shanghai Or Two. (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Jan 06, 2004)
India is shining. Or so its government proclaims in full-page newspaper advertisements nowadays.
- Fci Scheme May Push Up Wheat Price (Business Line, Dhimant Bhatt, Jan 06, 2004)
WHEAT prices in the open market are likely to rule higher in the short term, thanks to the new wheat sale scheme announced by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) from January 1, 2004, market sources have said. Wheat prices (mill quality) in the open
- Early Childhood Care And Education - First Steps On The Development Path (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Jan 06, 2004)
The sooner the Centre and States realise the importance of universal elementary education, the faster can a new development model be created for India, based on the blend of technical skill, superior knowledge and a population of literate Indians.
- Bank Reform And The Rural Sector (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jan 06, 2004)
Internal financial liberalisation has had adverse effects upon the availability of credit for farmers, adding to the various economic sources of agrarian distress. In this edition of Macroscan, consider the main elements of banking reform over the past
- Congress In Catch-22 Situation (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Jan 06, 2004)
NEVER before in its long history has the once venerable Congress party faced the crisis it is undergoing today. Because it is, in national terms, in danger of becoming the perennial second party. There are many reasons for the Congress predicament, but
- Walking On Cloud Eight (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Anil Kumble has now become the 10th-highest Test wicket-taker after claiming 8-141 on Monday. He is now on 378 from 81 Tests. Among current players, only Shane Warne (491), Muttiah Muralitharan (485) and Glenn McGrath (430) are ahead of him. Kumble
- Rain Harvests And Water Woes (Hindu, T. N. Narasimhan, Jan 06, 2004)
Intensive rain harvesting over large areas can significantly disrupt the hydrological cycle.
- ‘india Could Be Third Largest Stock Market By 2050’ (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 06, 2004)
The stock markets of Brazil, China, India and Russia could be as large as the combined markets of the world’s four top economies by 2050, Standard Life Investments said on Monday. Investors fretting over likely low returns from mature economies should ...
- A Mullah-Military Alliance In Pakistan (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Jan 06, 2004)
GEN Pervez Musharraf has once again exposed the politicians of his country as being rank opportunists, always ready to barter their principles for political gains. He has done this by entering into a well-calculated deal with the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
- North Wind (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Bhutan’s offensive against Indian rebels has offered Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee both an opportunity and a challenge. It has broken the back as well as the morale of the militants belonging to the Kamtapur Liberation Organization. It has also gone a long
- On A Home Run (Telegraph, MAHESH RANGARAJAN, Jan 06, 2004)
The new year, 2004, will witness the fourth consecutive general elections in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee will lead the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies into battle. No former Indian prime minister, save for Indira, the original Mrs Gandhi, has done
- Gold Hits 14-Year High As Dollar Crumbles (Indian Express, Reuters, Jan 06, 2004)
After stock markets, now it’s the turn of gold and silver to go through the roof.
Gold started the first week of 2004 on a high note in Europe, breaking through a long-standing target of $417.70 an ounce to hit the highest levels since February 1990
- Sweet Nothings (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2004)
Populism is the password to elections in India. All governments gearing up for elections announce policy packages and decisions that are thinly-veiled attempts to buy votes. No government has been free from this vice so it may seem a trifle unfair to ...
- The Perils Of Private Food Export (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Jan 05, 2004)
IT appears that the liberalisation and globalisation process is reaching a stage where it can do the most damage to the disadvantaged and under privileged in so vital a sector as food. What else can explain the decision of New Delhi to let private traders
- The Perils Of Private Food Export (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Jan 05, 2004)
IT appears that the liberalisation and globalisation process is reaching a stage where it can do the most damage to the disadvantaged and under privileged in so vital a sector as food. What else can explain the decision of New Delhi to let private traders
- Indian Counters On Song (Business Line, K.S. Badri Narayanan, Jan 05, 2004)
IT was a happy transmission from 2003 to 2004 for the equities as they witnessed sharp gains with investors' confidence brimming on various feelgood factors including signs of recovery in the US economy. The US stocks rose for a straight sixth week
- At Record Highs (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
THE CROSSING OF several important milestones by the Indian stock markets has a significance that goes beyond the statistical and the psychological. Not that the latter is of little consequence in evaluating market performance and more ...
- Year Of Some Big Decisions (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Jan 05, 2004)
History normally runs on rails, with one development following another in fairly obvious succession. It may seem like a roller-coaster ride at times, but twenty years later the outcome is just about what you would have expected at the start. Once in a ...
- Budget-Making: An Exercise In Guesstimates (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Jan 05, 2004)
IT IS that time of year when the corridors of North Block are busy with the Budget buzz. The detailed expenditure and revenue estimates would have already come in and the scrutiny of estimates with reference to actuals commenced. The first cut of estimate
- Too Easy To Manage (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Jan 05, 2004)
The scandalous leaking of the Indian Institutes of Management admission test papers and the attempts of the ministry to gain greater control over the IIMs heighten the need for a thorough review of management education in India, its content and governance
- 6000 And Going Strong (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
AS MILESTONES GO for the nation's stock market, the breaching of the 6000 mark by the Sensex — the Bombay Stock Exchange's bellwether index of equity prices — would easily rank among the more significant events in its chequered history. The palpable sense
- It’s Time To Make New Friends (Telegraph, M.R. Venkatesh, Jan 05, 2004)
The BJP’s refusal to rein in Jayalalithaa as also contradictions inherent in their coalition drove the DMK and MDMK out of the NDA
- Reform Labour Laws, Now (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Jan 05, 2004)
India's labour laws have to work towards `drawing in' human resources — entrepreneurial talent and employees — into the market so that natural resources and savings will follow. This will boost the nation's marketable and measurable output and make India
- Saarc Initiative On Free Trade (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 05, 2004)
In its essence, a free trade area means trading in a tariff-free environment, which should normally lead to a sharp increase in trade volume and value with the most efficient manufacturers of select products in the "area" raking in the maximum profits.
- Funny Bandh (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2004)
It takes a special kind of humour to find bandhs funny. Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was seized with a sense of the absurd when contemplating the latest form of political “action” being planned by his opponent, Ms Mamata Banerjee. The leader of the ...
- Lal Badshah (Indian Express, Ashok Malik, Jan 04, 2004)
IN the telegrammatic world of newspaper headline writers, a chestnut that resurfaces periodically, especially in the murky, confusing seasons before and after an election, when coalitions are simultaneously evaporating and solidifying is ‘‘Surjeet active
- Pakistan: The Two-Nation Theory (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jan 04, 2004)
ON THE plane to Pakistan, peer as hard as you like through the scratched window of PIA’s ramshackle Boeing, you still can’t see the border line that divides the democracy from the dictatorship. It’s shrouded in the fog of history, some say, others point
- Your Money Matters (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 04, 2004)
Money. The medium of exchange. The store of value. The fuel of our life. How will it treat us in 2004? Will interest rates rise, will home loan rates fall, will the stock markets soar, will inflation suck out more purchasing power? Some predictions.
- Ideological Roadblocks On The Road (Tribune, Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, Jan 04, 2004)
THE Hot Peace among different communities of the world, in the beginning of the 21st century, marked by its advent by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York, is, in a sense, more explosive than the earlier Cold War between nation
- Sonia, Undisturbed (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Jan 04, 2004)
Sonia, we know, answers no questions. Her biographer does not trouble her with too many
- India Tackles Adult Illiteracy (British Broadcasting Corporation, Richard Black, Jan 03, 2004)
Researchers in India have been giving details of a novel scheme aimed at increasing adult literacy.
- Young Talent To Get Break At Azlan Shah (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
After the highs of 2003, this year could prove to be a downer for Indian hockey unless the men’s team win a major title — either the qualifying tournament for the Olympics, the main event in Athens or, later, the Champions Trophy...
- Sluggish Growth (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
AT a time when the Indian growth story is being widely celebrated, it is necessary to have a close look at the exports, which alone can decide whether growth is sustainable in the long run. After registering a 20-per cent growth in the initial years of
- Indo-Pak Game Continues (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Jan 03, 2004)
ONCE more, the ante has been upped regarding efforts to normalise relations between India and Pakistan, the hope of course being that, this time, the effort will succeed.
There is nothing unrealistic about such a hope if for no other reason than the
- To Know The Road Ahead, Ask Those Coming Back (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 03, 2004)
WOULD you add legs to a snake after you have finished drawing it? Probably not, but that is a Chinese proverb about doing something that is totally unnecessary and thus spoiling what you have already done, and perhaps also revealing one's ignorance about
- Safta: Much Effort For Little Gains? (Business Line, Sanjib Pohit, Jan 03, 2004)
SAFTA seems set for take off, but it may not as it is modelled now, liberalising commodity trade first and then services. For, apart from India, other countries have little to gain from a trading bloc; their industries would lobby against SAFTA fearing
- They're No Country Cousins Of Commercial Banks (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Jan 03, 2004)
Do NBFCs need a level-playing field
- The Tussle Over Receipt Type (Business Line, R. Anand, Jan 03, 2004)
On the evergreen debate, capital versus revenue
- Looking Back, Looking Ahead (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jan 03, 2004)
It is increasingly becoming clear that without a flow of funds to the farm sector, the Indian economy will remain haunted by periodic production declines.
- It Shows Soundness And Stability Of Economy: Fm (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
Buoyed by 8.4 per cent growth in the second quarter, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh said on Friday that GDP growth would be even better in the subsequent quarters and the Sensex crossing 6,000 mark on Friday reflected the strong economic fundamentals and
- Telgi’s Key Operative Arrested In Hyderabad (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2004)
A key operative in the multi-crore fake stamp paper scam Raez Quadri was arrested and remanded to police custody today. Quadri, a close associate of Abdul Karim Telgi, was nabbed by Special Investigation Team (SIT) from old city last night while he
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