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Articles 13821 through 13920 of 16647:
- Wto And Agriculture - Make Fair Costs The Basis Of Trade (Business Line, Ruddar Datt , Sep 10, 2003)
While the developed countries want unhindered access to the markets of developing countries, they go to great lengths to support their farmers. To share the benefits of globalisation equitably, developed countries must effect reductions in tariffs and sub
- Fractals And The Future Of Organisations (Business Line, Pravir Malik, Sep 10, 2003)
Fractal patterns, which repeat themselves on an ever-larger scale, are widely present in natural phenomena. If nature employs fractal structures in building much of the physical universe, is a similar structure being unconsciously employed in the ...
- Friendship Occupies All The Territory (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Sep 10, 2003)
Stepping out of its decades-old lakshman rekha with Israel, Prime Minister A B Vajpayee today set the tone for a red carpet welcome for its Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, emphasising bonds in defence, agriculture and in the fight against terrorism that both
- Towards A Cancun Harvest (Indian Express, Yoginder K. Alagh, Sep 09, 2003)
What suggestions do we have for our negotiators at Cancun? It is not enough to prepare the terrain in terms of the arguments used by our interlocutors in trade policy discussions — particularly since most arguments made in academic debates in India, apart
- Russia's Economic Rebound (Hindu, VLADIMIR RADYUHIN, Sep 09, 2003)
Russia badly needs diversification to sustain high growth rates if there is a dramatic fall in oil prices once oil from Iraq hits the market.
- Should Banks Trade In Shares? (Business Line, R. Viswanathan , Sep 09, 2003)
Trading in shares by banks is close to speculation or gambling and the risks could, thus, be enormous. This calls for deeper scrutiny both by banks and the RBI, besides SEBI, lest the economy is visited yet again by another scam, with huge losses for the
- Ppf Is Still Relevant (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 09, 2003)
IT IS DIFFICULT to see how the public provident fund has lost it relevance, as the former UTI chairman, Mr S. A. Dave, the author of the official report on old age social security, argued recently. Setting aside a portion of current incomes to provide for
- Rbi Annual Report 2002-03: Credible And Creditable (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 08, 2003)
DR BIMAL Jalan, the RBI Governor who just relinquished charge last week, and his institution have dominated the news in the last few days, mainly because of the commendable achievements of the central bank under his tutelage. Compliments to Dr Jalan's
- Wto Gridlock Likely To Remain (Deccan Herald, Ambrose Pinto , Sep 08, 2003)
The Cancun ministerial is unlikely to produce major agreements on significant new liberalisation
- Blossoming Of India-Asean Ties (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 08, 2003)
THE INDIA-ASEAN Business Summit was perhaps the right forum for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to articulate his views on forging closer ties with the Southeast Asian nations. Relations with the regional grouping have been cemented and ...
- Dream Job? (Indian Express, DEV CHATTERJEE, Sep 07, 2003)
Jalan was open and quick. Also revamped the image of RBI from being bureaucratic to techno-savvy. Now, Reddy has his work cut out
- To Kill A Starving Life (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Sep 07, 2003)
Ali is a pavement vendor. He and his family wake at dawn every morning to cook massive amounts of idli-sambhar, dosas and poori-bhaji which he then transports in spotlessly clean steel containers to Marine Drive to sell. It is his only way of feeding his
- Can Democrats Take The War To Bush? (Hindu, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Sep 07, 2003)
The Democrats could make a contest of the U.S. Presidential elections
- Positive Effects Of The Current Rally (Business Line, B. Venkatesh , Sep 05, 2003)
A DEBATE is still raging as to whether the current market rally is an asset price bubble. Whatever the outcome of the debate, the positive secondary effects of the current rally are too important to be ignored. A continual increase in asset prices could
- World Investment Report 2003 — A Note Of Caution To Developing Countries (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 05, 2003)
AHEAD of the Fifth World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial, scheduled to start in Cancun (Mexico) on September 10, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) has cautioned the developing world against investment issues being pushed into the
- Professional Education And The S.C. (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Sep 05, 2003)
The Constitution Bench judgment in the Islamic Academy case creates a potentially enormous quota without working out the economics of its implementation.
- World Bank Pulls Up The Rich On Agriculture (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 05, 2003)
The report urges that, if the world's poor are to be benefited in any meaningful way, the Doha Round must result in a reduction in farm protection all around the world.
- Homework We Need To Do Before We Begin Flying (Indian Express, AIR COMMODORE ( RETD ) JASJIT SINGH, Sep 04, 2003)
The Cabinet Committee on Security’s decision to acquire the AJT finally opens the door to a crucial capability that the Indian Air Force has been seeking for more than two decades, and which it hasn’t had for three. But while the door has been opened, the
- Ceo Salaries — Don't Bank On Peanut-Monkey Logic (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Sep 04, 2003)
THE RECENT advertisement by the Government for a chief executive officer for the proposed IDBI-converted bank promised "market-linked compensation'' for the CEO and this has raised a furore among public sector banks (PSBs) and financial institutions.
- Make Industrial Sector The Engine Of Growth (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 04, 2003)
With the business environment for the industrial sector turning favourable, it is the right time to initiate measures to make this sector an engine of growth and to raise its share in GDP. The thrust of the growth strategy should be more public and ...
- Measuring Bank Efficiency: Productivity Versus Profitability (Business Line, V. Pitre, Sep 03, 2003)
"... the driving force in the path ahead will be the immense capabilities that we possess in terms of human resource. In the years to come the `human bias' is likely to get stronger and the quality of human resource would become the cutting edge of ...
- France's Heat Wave (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Sep 02, 2003)
How is it possible that in a country that boasts of one of the most advanced healthcare systems in the world, over 10,000 people are allowed to die in a matter of days
- Dr Jalan On Exchange Rate, Reserves - India's Currency Model Best For Asia (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 02, 2003)
EXCHANGE rates have always excited controversy. Indeed, one of the most politically explosive economic episodes in India's history concerned the devaluation of the rupee in 1966. The ruling party was sharply divided, with the anti-devaluationists led by
- Tasks Before Dr Reddy At Rbi (Business Line, A. Seshan, Sep 02, 2003)
DR Y. Venugopal Reddy is taking over as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). I had an opportunity to work with him during the tumultuous days of the Gulf Crisis in the early 1990s. He was then Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. He and I
- 'Centre Is Indifferent Towards Us. They Come Here Only When There's A Blast' (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 01, 2003)
Days after the twin blasts ripped through Mumbai city, Maharashtra CM Sushilkumar Shinde spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Indian Express, at the Gateway of India, one of the sites where the tragedy had struck. Excerpts from the interview ...
- A Bridge Too Misunderstood (Indian Express, Jayaraj Sivan, Sep 01, 2003)
Sri Lanka believes the proposed land bridge connecting the Rameswaram coast in India and Talaimannar in Sri Lanka is a much misunderstood project. While the project has been sought to be shot down on various grounds by Tamil Nadu politicians from Chief
- Newsreel: 31.08.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2003)
Uttar Pradesh has a new CM. Newer then Mayawati. Another political farce plays itself out in India’s most populous state installing Samajwadi Mulayam Singh Yadav as the new Chief Minister.
- Shower Power (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 31, 2003)
Ample rains and a consequent rise in agricultural output have set the economy on the growth path after three unremarkable years.
- First, Liberalise The Attitude (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Aug 31, 2003)
The item was tucked away in the inside pages. We have yet another committee and the ever-willing Mr N K Singh will now advise the Government of India or, to be precise, the Ministry of Power on how to overcome the reluctance of private investors to ...
- Queue, Sera, Sera (Indian Express, Coomi Kapoor, Aug 29, 2003)
It was while waiting at the Moscow airport some years back that realisation dawned. India, like Russia, has experienced its own economic revolution, even if ours has been less dramatic and more gradual. The serpentine queue at the Moscow immigration ...
- Strategy For India At Cancun (Business Line, P. P. Prabhu, Aug 29, 2003)
New Delhi's objective at the Cancun WTO ministerial should be to strive for an outcome that will help India obtain greater market access, and benefit from its export potential and greater participation in international trade
- Rational In Private, Wasteful In Public (Business Line, A. V. Ram Mohan, Aug 29, 2003)
WATER is scarce in Chennai, right? Wrong, if you observe the number of water tankers dripping and spilling their precious cargo throughout their routes. Petrol and fuel are expensive and dwindling resources, right? Wrong if you go by the number of vehicle
- After The No-Trust Move (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Aug 29, 2003)
There is a potential for closer cooperation among the Opposition parties within Parliament and for coordination outside.
- Non-Proliferation Problems (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Aug 29, 2003)
Given the policies the U.S. is pursuing unilaterally, the world will have to prepare itself to face a highly unstable nuclear future.
- Danger From Elbowing Out American Workers (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 29, 2003)
IN A context in which legislatures of some States in the US have sought to ban offshore outsourcing and engagement of non-American workers and immigrants, it is not surprising that the suicide at California of an employee of the Bank of America following
- Political Factors And Indo-Pak Trade (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Aug 29, 2003)
Pakistan definitely stands to gain from free trade with India but political considerations will not allow it
- Bureaucracy: Flaw Is In System, Not Workers (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Aug 29, 2003)
THE government may be the biggest industry in the world, but the statement, "I am from the government and here to help you" is still considered a bad joke. Increasingly, the people do not think that the government knows how to help or is bothered...
- Optimism At Rbi (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 29, 2003)
THE SMILE IS back on Mint Street with the Reserve Bank of India certain of real GDP growth this year "significantly exceeding" the first estimate of 6 per cent in April. Credit goes to good rains heralding a sharp rise in farm output which tagged on to a
- Good News From Rbi: Growth Is Set To Grow (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 28, 2003)
There's good news for India Inc and stockmarkets: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has turned bullish about the economy. Upgrading the growth prospects for this year, the central bank said the 6 per cent growth forecast in real gross domestic product (GDP)
- Thinking Big With Sri Lanka (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 28, 2003)
When he calls on us to "think regionally rather than nationally," Ranil Wickremesinghe is bucking the trend in a region that has become a prisoner of debilitating ultra-nationalism.
- Cancun: Heavy Mantle On Jaitley (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 28, 2003)
At Cancun where WTO Trade Ministers meet to take stock of the headway made in the Doha Development Agenda, the Commerce Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley, faces a heavy responsibility in taking forward the achievements of his predecessor, Mr Murasoli Maran, who
- Miracle Called Atal, Illusion Named Sonia (Indian Express, Balbir K Punj, Aug 27, 2003)
The country replied to the Sonia Gandhi piloted opposition no-confidence motion many hours before the vote in the Lok Sabha.
- Pak, Give Us Our Most Wanted, Says Advani (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
: The morning after, the death toll at 53, the crumpled metal of a taxi at Mumbadevi and the Gateway of India hosted two very important visitors.
- The Hindu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 27, 2003)
THE HINDU, FOUNDED on September 20, 1878, is the oldest surviving major newspaper of Indian nationalism, by which we mean the great socio-political movement that won freedom for India from colonial bondage and helped consolidate the gains ...
- Services Exports: Opportunities And Barriers (Business Line, H. A. C. Prasad, Aug 27, 2003)
THE services sector is a very important one for India. Commercial services account for some 25 per cent of India's total exports. If labour services are included, the percentage will be higher. In 2002-03, for the first time India had a positive balance
- Mumbai, Shaken But Not Broken (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 27, 2003)
By targeting Mumbai, the country's financial capital, the terrorists hoped to strike at the heart of the nation. But the megapolis' resilience and vibrancy saw it back in action the very next day. The Maharashtra Government owes it to the Mumbaikars to
- Auto Component Industry - Time It Got Its Parts Together (Business Line, B.S. Rathor, Aug 27, 2003)
THE auto component industry is coming out of the learning curve and appears all set to step on the accelerator. But the journey was arduous, especially in dealing with a new set of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). When in the 1990s global car
- It Was Pouring Good News In The City Until The Shower Of Glass (Indian Express, George Mathew, Aug 26, 2003)
Refrain in rattled markets: We will bounce back, no big deal unless there are riots or Indo-Pak tension back
- Black Mumbai Monday (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2003)
Blasts bring back ghosts of 1993 and its memory of quick recovery
- Growth With Integration (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 26, 2003)
THE SRI LANKAN Prime Minister, Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe's reference to a trade off between freedom and economic progress in his speech at the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation Millennium Lecture Series 2003 has all the ingredients to set off a ...
- No Free Lunch In Education (Deccan Herald, S N CHARY, Aug 25, 2003)
Capitation fees are not always collected out of 'greed'; it is in most cases the only means for colleges to survive
- Market Equanimity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2003)
THE ONGOING RALLY in share prices has been interpreted in various, often contrary, ways. The first big question to which there has been no unanimous answer is: will the rise in the share prices — the benchmark share indices have climbed to ...
- Soon: A Hot, Upscale Residency Called Dharavi (Indian Express, Manju Mehta, Aug 25, 2003)
Asia’s biggest slum to become an urban sprawl with housing complexes, supermarkets
- Making Our People Rich (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 25, 2003)
NEARLY six decades ago momentous things happened in both our countries. We made our people free. We established institutions and secured a system of Government where the people were able to elect the Parliament and enjoy basic democratic freedoms. This...
- Making Our People Rich (Hindu, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Aug 25, 2003)
Sri Lanka and India, working as an integrated marketplace, offer strong opportunities for potential investors. Together, we can offer greater economies of scale and build a more competitive commercial environment.
- Economy: Course Correction Imperative (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 25, 2003)
IT IS too early to judge how the economy will progress during the year. However, it is tempting, as always, to read the economy's tea leaves. I recently reviewed a copy of the Government's monthly economic report for July 2003. What do its figures tell us
- Our Lady Of Diminishing Returns (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Aug 24, 2003)
Sonia Gandhi achieved an astonishing political feat last week. She became the target of her own motion of no confidence. I base this assertion on comments that drifted my way afterwards from Delhi’s drawing rooms and corridors of power. My, how confident
- Waking Up To Wto (Indian Express, P. Chidambaram, Aug 24, 2003)
One of the persistent myths in developing countries is that developing countries do not need the World Trade Organisation (WTO). And that the WTO is more pain than gain. On the eve of every Ministerial meeting convened by the WTO, there is a bout of WTO
- ‘let This Change Be Permanent’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 23, 2003)
The Indian Express readers respond to Arun Shourie’s three-part Independence Day special on the innovative new India.
- Panchayati Raj, Pakistani Style (Indian Express, George Mathew, Aug 23, 2003)
Bhurban near Murree, a beautiful hill station near Islamabad, was recently the venue of a path-breaking conference on local government. Pakistan’s National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), established in 2000, organised it. Its mandate is to provide clean ...
- Motion’s Over, Now Move (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Aug 23, 2003)
Everybody who participated in, or witnessed, this week’s debate on the no-confidence motion in Parliament obviously must have his or her own take on it.
- Negative Peace In Sri Lanka (Deccan Herald, P. Sahadevan , Aug 22, 2003)
There are no signs of a breakthrough in the Sri Lanka-LTTE dialogue but the peace process is going on
- Proposal For Zero Customs Duty - With Right Environment, Industry Can Cope (Business Line, Ambrose Pinto , Aug 22, 2003)
The US' zero-for-zero Customs duty proposal envisages allowing imports at zero duty and expecting reciprocal treatment for exports. Is Indian industry prepared to face the onslaught of imports and remain successful? Sure, it can many sectors already hav
- Flat Yield Curve Is Top Priority (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Aug 22, 2003)
Keeping the yield curve low and flat will be the apt objective of monetary administration and policy over the next five years. This period will be characterised by fiscal discipline imposed by Parliament and by all-round economic growth. But the flat ...
- India’s Magic Realism (Indian Express, Arun Jaitley, Aug 22, 2003)
Producing 30 per cent of America’s doctors but not one Al-Qaida terrorist
- The Trouble With China Trade (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Aug 22, 2003)
UNTIL around 2000, there was a scramble for trade with China among the industrialised countries. They evolved special strategies to promote trade. Delegations led by Presidents and Prime Ministers went and signed glitzy agreements with China. China played
- Riding The Bull (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2003)
The feel-good factor, which had eluded the stockmarkets for quite some time, is back. The 30-share BSE Sensitive Index soared past the crucial 4,000 mark this week and continues its upward journey, much to the relief of market players, investors and the
- No-Confidence Motion - All Sound And Little Fury (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Aug 21, 2003)
With the result of the no-confidence motion against the Vajpayee Government a foregone conclusion, the exercise does seem to have been an utter waste of public money and valuable Parliament time. But it served to prove that the Opposition is capable of...
- South Asia’s Four Play (Indian Express, SHAHID JAVED BURKI, Aug 20, 2003)
The road to Indo-Pakistani cooperation flows through four key areas of the economy. For a start, New Delhi can trade its IT expertise for Islamabad’s energy
- Fiscal Consolidation, The Real Payoff (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Aug 20, 2003)
The mere announcement of an avalanche of measures without ensuring how they will deliver is not good economics, though maybe savvy politics, particularly when elections are round the corner. Dividends will come only from correcting and shoring up the
- Lessons For India From The Us Blackout (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Aug 20, 2003)
The massive blackout across the US showed up the holes in the power policy framework of the supposedly most technologically advanced nation.
- Electricity Act 2003 - Seeking To Transform The Network Access System (Business Line, Mudit Kulshreshtha, Aug 20, 2003)
WITH the successful passage of the Electricity Act 2003 through both Houses of Parliament, this important sector is all set for major changes. Despite a certain circumspection about the mechanics of implementation, the recommendations of the Act appear to
- A No-No To Negaholism (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2003)
Political leaders should take Arun Shourie’s prescription on dealing with the world seriously
- Engineering A Reverse Brain Drain (Business Line, R. Sundaram , Aug 19, 2003)
AMIDST the din and cackle of political debates on cow slaughter and reservation it is heartening to learn that the Communications Minister, Mr Arun Shourie, has endowed his entire entitlement under the MP Local Area Development scheme to set up a biotech
- The Success Of Microeconomics (Business Line, S. Venu , Aug 19, 2003)
REFLECTING on their failure to be able to explain or forecast the economy as a whole, macroeconomists lack a certain intellectual buoyancy at present. Their subject matter is as exciting as ever — more so, with globalisation, financial cases, and the New
- Adding Value To Commodity Futures (Business Line, Kalyan Raipuria, Aug 19, 2003)
THE FUTURE of futures in commodities is closely linked with the emerging trends in global economy and in prices, unlike security derivatives where national sentiments play a major role. But system improvement can do wonders. Last year commodity prices as
- Trade Unionism Must Reinvent Itself (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Aug 19, 2003)
The Indian trade union movement is badly organised and much politicised. It is splintered and leaves out of its pale vast numbers of unorganised workers. Only a confederation of the working class of all hues can serve as a political watchdog, as it can
- Now It Is Up To The Bond Market (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Aug 18, 2003)
How will the US bond market behave when the Federal Reserve is fighting deflation not with any unconventional or daring monetary policy but by merely keeping short-term interest rates at low levels and promising to do so credibly for as long as is ...
- Washington’s Oil Spill (Indian Express, G Parthasarathy, Aug 18, 2003)
Browsing through a bookshop that was full of Indian IT professionals and their families in California’s Silicon Valley, my eyes fell on a book intriguingly titled: Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold our Soul for Saudi Crude.
- Deficits And Debt Can Trip Growth (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Aug 18, 2003)
INDIA has been facing for nearly two decades the problem of large fiscal imbalances culminating in the balance of payments crisis of l991, which became the turning point on the road to a liberalised and market-driven economy. Fiscal adjustment was at the
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