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Articles 15821 through 15920 of 16647:
- Management Tools And The New Economy (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Sep 05, 2001)
SURPRISE! Making a profit seems to be back in fashion. We were taught in business school that all businesses aimed to make a profit.
- Scrap Those Mous (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 05, 2001)
THE government should dismantle the export and indigenisation rules that govern automobile investments in India.
- Merger Question Stares Tmc In The Face (Hindu, V. Jayanth , Sep 04, 2001)
CHENNAI, SEPT. 3. The Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, has set the pace for the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) to make the next move.
- Should Older People Work Longer? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 04, 2001)
Should older people be made to work past the traditional retirement age in the future?
- Fighting The Slowdown Requires Bold Strategies (The Financial Express, Bhanoji Roa, Sep 04, 2001)
The economy grew at just about 5.2 per cent in 2000-01, against the much-publicised forecast of 6 per cent.
- All Pawns, No Bishops (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Sep 04, 2001)
HEDGED in from all sides, his government torn with contradictions, his governance discredited in the eyes of the country as never before.
- Cleanest Transporter (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 04, 2001)
THE LATE M G Ramachandran earned the undying gratitude of thousands of rickshaw wallahs by not just acting as one but bequeathing raincoats to them.
- New Start (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 04, 2001)
On August 23, the CSE clocked a turnover of Rs 10.88 crore, as the Mumbai-based bourses were closed.
- Economic Stock-Taking (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 04, 2001)
IT IS NOT at all surprising that the Reserve Bank of India should be decidedly pessimistic on the near-term macro-economic outlook even as it remains guarded over the medium term.
- Globalisation And Politics (Hindu, Supriya Roy Chowdhury, Sep 04, 2001)
IN RECENT months, there has been a fresh spate of public protests against globalisation, in Genoa, London and South Africa.
- Why The Gods Are Angry (The Economic Times, Ruchir Sharma, Sep 04, 2001)
GREEK mythology has it that King Tantalus angered the gods so much that they in turn condemned him to stand forever in a pool of clear water with a fruit-laden tree overhead.
- Fed On Slogans (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 04, 2001)
DESPITE being a vast country with varied resources, the Indian poor have only been fed on slogans since Independence.
- The Us Slowdown Will Create Global Recessionary Pressures (The Economic Times, Neeraj Kaushal, Sep 04, 2001)
WHEN America catches cold, the global economy starts showing signs of pneumonia. This may be an over-used cliche. But the harsh reality of this cliche has never been as bitter as now.
- Kursi Kinetics (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 03, 2001)
Cabinet reshuffle: different strokes for different folk.
- A Mere Cabinet Reshuffle Won’t Do (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, Sep 03, 2001)
THE WORLD economy is in decline. The Indian industrial economy has been declining for some years and the economy as a whole has for almost two years been waiting for a magic wand to be waved by government to revive it.
- Reforming The Rural Non-Farm Sector (Hindu, S. Mahendra Dev , Sep 03, 2001)
THE IMPORTANCE of the rural non-farm sector in poverty alleviation and promotion of livelihoods is being increasingly recognised.
- Has Global Recession Arrived? (Business Line, V. Anantha-Nageswaran , Sep 03, 2001)
THE ANSWER must be yes, if recent headlines are any indication. Last Friday, The Economist (August 25, 2001) put recession on its cover and this Friday, it was the turn of Japan.
- Eichel And Sinha Face Similar Problems (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 03, 2001)
THE Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, is not alone in his dilemma about reining in the fiscal deficit, especially during an economic downturn.
- Rbi Faults Poor Fiscal Adjustment For Jolting Growth (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Sep 03, 2001)
The reductions in administered interest rates on some savings instruments, states the Reserve Bank in its annual report, enabled a general easing of the rate structure through monetary policy action.
- Nothing Original About It! (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Sep 03, 2001)
THE NATIONAL Council of Applied Economic Research, one of the most respected think tanks in the country, has learnt from its past mistakes. So has the IMF.
- Miles To Go Before I Wake (Indian Express, Bibek Debroy, Sep 03, 2001)
THERE is a great debate going on about the World Trade Organisation’s ministerial meeting in Doha.
- Performance Anxiety (Telegraph, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 03, 2001)
One of the important recent developments as far as India is concerned has been the downgrading of India by internationally well-known rating agencies, Standard and Poor and Moody’s.
- Fixing Targets Isn't Enough (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 03, 2001)
THE NDA government led by Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee perhaps thinks that one must aim at a high target even if this amounts to being unrealistic.
- Not So Fast (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 03, 2001)
The Reserve Bank of India, which has just released its annual report, has revised its predictions about the short-term growth rate of the economy.
- Indo-Us Relations On An Even Keel (Tribune, N K Pant, Sep 03, 2001)
IT is now confirmed that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will be meeting President George Bush and hold parleys with him when the former travels to New York to attend the UN General Assembly session.
- Corruption Fuels A War (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
In Chechnya, Russia has to deal with the rebelsand its own corrupt military commanders whohave a vested interest in keeping the conflictgoing, says Vladimir Radyuhin.
- Mega Tour (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
Ms. Megawati Sukarnoputri's clout in Indonesia's neighbourhood depends on her performance internally. Amit Baruah on her nine- nation ASEAN tour.
- Act Local And Be Global (The Economic Times, Rohin R Shah, Sep 02, 2001)
THE WORD ‘retail’ has generated some serious interest among the property community in India over the last 18 months or so.
- Pak’s Dirty Little Great Game Of Democracy (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Sep 02, 2001)
A Recent newspaper photograph shows Makhdum Amin Fahim of the Peoples Party looking like a deferential prime minister-to-be, chatting amiably with a benevolent-looking General Pervez Musharraf. This has sent political pundits into raptures.
- Of Level Playing Fields In Usa, Africa And India (Tribune, Prem Kumar , Sep 02, 2001)
A friend offered a formulation: America plus Africa is equal to India. I did not follow it and wanted an elaboration. Was it about the population of India which has crossed the one billion mark?
- Kashmir, The Core Issue For Us Too (Tribune, Abu Abraham, Sep 02, 2001)
AT the time of the Bangladesh struggle for independence, when the Pakistani army was on a virtual orgy of genocide, burning villages, raping women and shooting young men and even children at random, the Pakistanis described them all as traitors.
- Power Corrupts Women As Much As Their Male Counterparts (The Economic Times, SHOMA A. CHATTERJI, Sep 02, 2001)
THERE is a tendency to rationalise negative acts of women in the post-modern age.
- Secrets And Treasures (Telegraph, AMIT CHAUDHURI, Sep 02, 2001)
Families have their secrets and treasures.
- Jaya’s Game Is Up (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 01, 2001)
SUDDENLY, as it were, an impregnable roadblock has risen on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s yearning to retain power beyond November 13.
- Co-Operatives: First Clean The Mess, Help Can Follow (The Economic Times, Jayaprakash Narayan, Sep 01, 2001)
THE CALL of the prime minister to depoliticise, debureaucratise, democratise and professionalise cooperatives has not come a day too soon.
- Ah, The Sweet Smell Of Poverty! (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 01, 2001)
Forget what Dil Chahta Hai, we’re wired to rubbish the rich.
- The Rbi Annual Report For 2000-01 -- Suffering The Curse Of Sisyphus (Business Line, P. R. Brahmananda , Sep 01, 2001)
THE Annual Report of the Reserve Bank of India for 2000-01, released on August 28, presents a comprehensive account of the economy from the RBI angle.
- Why India Must Go To Doha (Business Line, R. Parthasarathy , Sep 01, 2001)
THE fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation is to take place at Doha from November 9 to 13.
- Losing Jobs (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 01, 2001)
DRIVEN partly by competition and partly by global slowdown, public sector undertakings and private enterprises are resorting to job cuts.
- The Age Of Indifference (Indian Express, Sunil Jain, Sep 01, 2001)
SO this session of Parliament is finally over, the Opposition’s had its fun pillorying the government on Tehelka, Telecom, and a few other Things, but what was achieved?
- Disturbing Economic Situation (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Sep 01, 2001)
PAKISTAN’S economy is in a total mess. This is hardly news. Yet the newspapers daily draw attention to this alarming situation.
- ‘India Needs Newer Tourist Destinations’ (The Economic Times, K. B. Kachru, Sep 01, 2001)
THE $31 billion Carlson Hospitality group has four flagship brands, Radisson Hotels, Regent Hotels, Country Inns and TGI Friday.
- Illusion Vs Reality (The Economic Times, Bina Verma, Sep 01, 2001)
THE RESERVE Bank of India report’s estimate of GDP growth at 5.2 per cent in 2000-01, indicates the performance of the government — the finance ministry in particular.
- Lessons From 'Greater China' (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 01, 2001)
TAIPEI, AUG. 31. Guess who is India's third largest trading partner? Greater China! That
- Shrinking Equity Cult And Rising Uncertainties (The Financial Express, M. R. Mayya, Sep 01, 2001)
Small investors have received a severe blow by the recent amendment effected to the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957 (SC(R)Rules) by the government reducing the percentage of public offer from 25 per cent to 10 per cent.
- The Path To Durable Fiscal Consolidation Is Through Fiscal Empowerment (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 01, 2001)
Extracts from the Reserve Bank of India’s Annual Report, 2000-01:
Fiscal Policy Issues
- A Legal Setback (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 01, 2001)
THE SUPREME COURT's stay of the ongoing hearings of Ms. Jayalalithaa's appeals challenging her convictions for corruption has all but closed the door on her continuance as Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister beyond mid-November.
- Helping Build A New Nation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 31, 2001)
Something truly remarkable is happening in a small half-island in the Pacific.
- Re-Build Confidence With A Conducive Policy Environment: Rbi (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 31, 2001)
Industrial production slowed to an annual average growth rate of 6.6 per cent in the post-reform period from 7.8 per cent in 1980s. In the first four years of the Ninth Plan period.
- No Ducking The Haemorrhage In The Financial System (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 31, 2001)
Depressed stock prices have inspired take-over forays and bids by controlling interests to up their equity stake.
- Us And China: Back To Courting (Business Line, B. Raman , Aug 31, 2001)
POLITICALLY hard and unyielding, but economically flexible and alluring. Those are the defining characteristics of the present Chinese leadership.
- Legal Plunder (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 31, 2001)
THE SUPREME Court of India’s verdict that landlords have no vested right to evict tenants is widely seen to have brought ‘relief’ to tenants.
- Chronicling A ‘Strange’ Alliance (Indian Express, Amrita Abraham, Aug 31, 2001)
An honour guard of 6-foot-2 Pakistani cavalrymen greeted John Foster Dulles on his visit to Karachi in 1953 and made an indelible impression on the US secretary of state.
- King Maker’s Exit (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 31, 2001)
A robust common sense was what characterised.
- Beant Singh: The Man Who Stemmed (Tribune, J. S. Puar, Aug 31, 2001)
IN such a gloomy scenario of chaos and blood tide, there appeared a man of conviction, the Late Beant Singh who stemmed this tide of blood and violence in Punjab with his indomitable will and steadfastness culminating in his supreme sacrifice.
- Wto Negotiations: Identify Interests Not Positions (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, Aug 31, 2001)
THE CURRENT Indian position on the forthcoming trade negotiations at Doha seems to be the politically correct one: implementation must be on the agenda whether as part of a new round or a continuation of the Uruguay round.
- Greedy Followers (The Economic Times, Anil P. Bagarka, Aug 31, 2001)
WITH reference to the three-fold hike in the salaries of MPs (ET, August 18), where are the parliamentarians who can really claim to be the followers of the Father of the Nation?
- Sino-Russian Treaty: Implications For India (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Aug 31, 2001)
THERE is only one country in the world which we can call a true friend of India. That country is Russia. Both sentiment and strategy have brought us together.
- Business And Sustainable Development (Business Line, S. Subramanyan , Aug 31, 2001)
MANAGEMENT literature on corporate power and responsibility is growing. Commensurate with this is the increase in media and public awareness on such issues.
- Facing Up To The Facts (Hindu, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 31, 2001)
THE NATIONAL Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has come out boldly on the side of the weak and the oppressed many a time.
- Rbi Finds Economy Sick (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 30, 2001)
CLINICAL reports on all aspects of the economy are in and the top medical consultant, the RBI, has declared the condition grim.
- Rbi’s Reservations (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 30, 2001)
THE RESERVE Bank of India’s annual report is an eagerly awaited document.
- Fumbling Finance Minister (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Aug 30, 2001)
MONEY is like manure,” goes a Hebrew saying, “Hoard it, and all you end up with is a big stink. Spread it wisely, and you are rewarded with a fortune.”
- A Bare Pass (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 30, 2001)
THE RBI's RATING of the Government's stewardship of the economy is out.
- Drugs Gain New Ground In The Sub-Continet (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Aug 30, 2001)
IN THE bylanes of Mumbai, the back alleys of Karachi, in the midst of the middle- and upper classes, there is a sub-culture that thrives.
- More Rough Than Smooth (Telegraph, Tapas Chakraborty, Aug 30, 2001)
Sixty-two year old Umadhar Prasad Singh, an independent member of legislative assembly from Darbhanga, spends his evenings sitting behind a cluttered wooden desk.
- Wishes Are Not Horses (Telegraph, BHASKAR DUTTA , Aug 30, 2001)
The recent downgrade by two leading international ratings agencies of India’s foreign currency outlook from stable to negative could not have come at a worse time for Yashwant Sinha.
- Will The Centre Heed Rbi’s Suggestions On Agricultural Reforms? (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Aug 30, 2001)
THE Centre seems to care little about the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) suggestions on the urgent need for institutional reforms in agriculture.
- Structural Constraints Impede Growth, Says Rbi (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 30, 2001)
The deceleration of economic activity for the second year in succession has raised some concerns about the feasibility of rapidly moving the economy to a higher growth path in the medium term.
- Rich China, Poor Subcontinent (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 30, 2001)
THE CHINESE prosper by finessing political differences. South Asians stay poor rather than compromise on principles.
- Years Of Awakening (Pioneer, Narendra Modi, Aug 30, 2001)
Any time is a good time to take stock of where we are headed as a nation.
- Will China Change For The Better? (The Economic Times, Prabhat Kumar, Aug 30, 2001)
CHINA’S impending accession to the World Trade Organisation has raised huge expectations that the Chinese will become more rule-bound and transparent in their behaviour.
- The Worsening Fiscal Scenario (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Aug 30, 2001)
RECENT literature on the sequencing of economic reforms accords high priority to fiscal consolidation.
- Feeling The Pinch (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Aug 30, 2001)
Come September All India Radio’s FM (2) channel will hit the road and if it sounds like the main channel (that is, if the trial runs are any indication) don’t blame the planners.
- From Reform To Crisis: Tales From Another Continent (The Economic Times, T.T.Ram Mohan, Aug 30, 2001)
THIS year the world economy will crawl at around two per cent.
- Retrograde Step (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 30, 2001)
THE PETROLEUM ministry is reportedly toying with the idea of keeping diesel under retail price controls even after the administered pricing mechanism is given a formal burial in March next year.
- Violent Ways (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 30, 2001)
THE RANSACKING OF a private hospital in Thane by hoodlums belonging to the Shiv Sena is indeed yet another reminder of the lumpen proclivities of the adherents of Mr. Bal Thackeray's outfit.
- The Unlawful Culture (Hindu, Manabi Majumdar, Aug 29, 2001)
IN HIS powerful novel `Yama,' the Russian novelist Alexander Kuprin talked about the age-old practice of prostitution and ruefully commented that ``the horror is just in this that there is no horror''.
- Happy Marriage ‘Good For Health’ (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 29, 2001)
Middle-aged men who live alone are at greater risk of illness and death than their married counterparts.
- Of Rising Perks And Diminishing Responsibilities (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 29, 2001)
TWO things have left me cold. One is the proposal by members of Parliament (MPs) to raise their own emoluments, and the other is the bungling in handling of relations between New Delhi and the Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa.
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