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Articles 9021 through 9120 of 10500:
- Syl: Time To Rectify Past Mistakes (Tribune, Himmat Singh Gill, Jul 17, 2004)
In view of the ongoing water war in which some of the northern states have been drawn into, consequent to Punjab passing the Bill terminating the water sharing accords, let’s all very honestly have another look at the merits and demerits of this issue.
- A Severe Indictment (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 17, 2004)
As the World Bank’s report has confirmed it, Punjab has been a victim of poor governance. Its decline started in the nineties and still continues.
- Budget 2004 — Wait For The Next (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jul 17, 2004)
The contents and approach of Budget 2004 are a far cry from the unique model of economic reform that Manmohan Singh said the UPA would offer to the world.
- Budget 2004-05 — Ploughing A Difficult Furrow (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jul 17, 2004)
The Budget, despite its limitations, has been welcomed for the primacy it gives for equity while industry also gives credit to Mr P. Chidambaram for what he could do in the circumstances.
- Essays In Honour Of Manmohan, The Professor (Business Line, D. Murali , Jul 17, 2004)
Last week, the Finance Minister presented the first Budget of the new government, factoring in all that is dear to the Prime Minister.
- Reducing Poverty — Choosing The Right Technologies (Business Line, Kumar Venkat, Jul 16, 2004)
Thirty years after the publication of E. F. Schumacher's celebrated book, Small is Beautiful, which proposed matching the cost and scale of technologies to the people and resources of developing nations, a basic question remains
- Punjab Slowdown Dismays World Bank (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Jul 16, 2004)
Hold your breath! Here is a warning: the World Bank has forecast a gloomy future for Punjab. And if its current growth slowdown persists for another decade, by the end of it Punjab would no longer be the most prosperous state in the country.
- Don’T Ignore Urban Development (Deccan Herald, A RAVINDRA, Jul 16, 2004)
There is a need to view urbanisation as an instrument of agricultural and rural development
- India Playing With Maoist Fire (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, Jul 01, 2004)
India appears to be taking a big gamble with Maoist insurgents. Encouraged by the central government in Delhi, the ruling Congress-led coalition government in the state of Andhra Pradesh has removed a nine-year-old ban on the People's War Group . . .
- Behind The Facade Of Indian Subsidies (Asia Times, Kunal Kumar Kundu, Jun 29, 2004)
Good politics is quite often bad economics, and nothing epitomizes this better than India's subsidy system. The subsidy policies in India are being advocated by those same policy makers who appear in public as pro-poor, but are driven by the . . .
- Resetting The Terms (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 26, 2004)
It should not have taken much time for the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to draft his first address to the nation, leaving the nation a tad disappointed, if not unimpressed. Economic words that have become incendiary, such as privatisation ...
- Punjab Finances In Disarray (Tribune, P. P. S. Gill, Jun 25, 2004)
Punjab continues to be an enigma. It knows what is wrong with its body politic and economy and is aware of its stalled industrial and agricultural production and productivity.
- Rural Reconstruction: A Cosmetic Surgery (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Jun 25, 2004)
Enhanced bank credit does not solve farmers’ problem of indebtedness. Nor does it put an end to suicide by farmers
- Harness Banks To Power The Cmp (Business Line, Dharmalingam Venugopal, Jun 25, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) has no ordinary task on hand. It seeks to accelerate economic growth even while ushering in distributive justice.
- Much At Stake In July (Deccan Herald, SUPACHAI PANITCHPAKDI, Jun 25, 2004)
July is a critical month for India as well as the rest of the world — it will decide the course of global trade talks
- India's Gandhi Must Burn Mother-In-Law's Recipe: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Jun 22, 2004)
Since last month's surprise change in India's federal government, the Mumbai stock exchange Sensitive Index has shed 13.6 percent in dollar terms, more than any other benchmark equity index in the world.
- How Feasible Is A Rural Employment Guarantee? (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jun 22, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme of the new UPA Government promises to provide public employment of 100 days per year to every rural household. Already the financial press has been trying to project this promise as unrealistic and requiring excessively large
- Reforms Take Back Seat In Andhra (Tribune, Ramesh Kandula, Jun 22, 2004)
From Ferraris to farmers is the paradigm shift the new Congress government led by Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy has brought about in its over one month in power in Andhra Pradesh.
- Globalisation Gets A Riposte In India (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Jun 22, 2004)
Political analysts have been attempting to delve deeper into the outcome of Elections-2004 that led to the downfall of the BJP-led NDA Government and the emergence of a stronger countervailing (secular) force
- When Farmers Die (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jun 22, 2004)
Almost every sector failed the Andhra Pradesh farmer — the Government, the political class, intellectuals, planners, human rights groups, a once-activist judiciary and the media.
- Reinventing Unctad's Role (Hindu, S.P. Shukla, Jun 21, 2004)
Will UNCTAD articulate the urge for a new world of peace, equity and economic security?
- Debt Relief (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 21, 2004)
The winds of economic change have brought no windfall to the farming community during the last few years. On the contrary, they have been harbingers of bad news...
- New Deal For Agriculture (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 21, 2004)
By announcing a package of measures aimed at alleviating the burden of drought-hit agricultural borrowers and extending the scope of institutional credit to farmers, the United Progressive Alliance Government has moved swiftly to deliver on some key ...
- Women And Environment Continue To Suffer (Tribune, Kiran Soni Gupta, Jun 20, 2004)
The welfare of human beings is final reference point in judging the impact of what we do or fail to do. Women have an essential role to play in the development of sustainable and ecologically sound system of natural resource management.
- Team Manmohan Charting A New Course (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2004)
The message from the new Government at the Centre is clear. While economic reforms will continue, it will not be a mindless pursuit keeping the weak and the downtrodden out of its beneficial loop.
- The Left Will Help Manmohan Complete His Term: Bardhan (Tribune, Tripti Nath, Jun 20, 2004)
Communist Party of India General Secretary A.B. Bardhan has grown up with the party. He became its member during the student movement in the late forties.
- The Men Who Matter (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 20, 2004)
The Prime Minister himself: No certificates are required to establish Manmohan Singh's credentials as a reformer. But his role has changed from the one he had 13 years ago and in the last eight years he is understood to have imbibed many political nuances
- Common Minimum Programme — At Cross Purposes With Frbm? (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , Jun 19, 2004)
While the Government will have to reckon with monumental increase in liabilities on account of the plethora of additional commitments under the Common Minimum Programme, there appears to be little scope for effecting savings in subsidies, interest ...
- Iaf Ambala Jets To Fly For Alaska (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Jun 19, 2004)
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has often displayed its operational strength during air exercises with various countries, including the US. Two IAF IL-76 transporters participated in exercises in the US last year.
- Movement In Doha Round (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 19, 2004)
A measure of scepticism may be warranted about yet another claim of a breakthrough in the deadlocked Doha round of the World Trade Organisation.
- Debate On Reform And Development (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Jun 18, 2004)
Reforms in India have failed to focus on the end objectives of development, namely, reduction of poverty and improvement in the quality of life of bulk of the population.
- Biotechnology: The Encoded Message (Business Line, S. Venu , Jun 18, 2004)
Biotechnology involves the use of information on genetically controlled traits, combined with the technical ability to alter the expression of those traits, to provide enhanced biological organisms, which allow mankind to lessen the constraints imposed...
- Return Of A Reformer (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 18, 2004)
The appointment of Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia as Deputy Chairperson of the Planning Commission marks the return to the government of the noted Oxford-educated economist, who had earlier worked with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and ...
- Needed, Many More Irmas (Business Line, Vinod Mathew, Jun 18, 2004)
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development is understood to have recently lectured the dons of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta — on the advisability of their helping the government set up one new IIM...
- Keeping Off The Gm Bandwagon (Hindu, Suman Sahai , Jun 15, 2004)
It is embarrassing that India, with such agricultural strengths and dependencies, is lurching from biotech product to product with no defined policy to guide it.
- Economic Compulsions Of Coalition (Business Line, T. N. Ashok, Jun 15, 2004)
More than the Common Minimum Programme, it is the Budget that will set the tone for UPA's economic agenda. Especially watched by the investing community will be the fate of reform and if it will be accelerated. Can coalition politics see this through?
- Asia's Male Tilt (Christian Science Monitor, editorial, Christian Science Monitor, Jun 15, 2004)
This year, millions of young men in China and India will reach their 19th birthday with little prospect of finding a wife. It's not that young, single women aren't available - it's that they don't exist in the same numbers.
- Food For Work (Hindu, SUSHMA RAMACHANDRAN , Jun 14, 2004)
The new Government should ensure that food-forwork programmes adhere to the basic principle of distributing food rather than cash.
- Unctad: For A New Agenda (Business Line, Dipankar Dey, Jun 14, 2004)
With protests against globalisation rising all around, and widespread discontent against the WTO, particularly among the developing countries, people are looking for a suitable alternative.
- Failed By Fallacies (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jun 14, 2004)
Though the previous government left the economy in fairly good shape, it did not get the mandate to rule because of increasing rural-urban, rich-poor disparity and rising unemployment, particularly among the educated.
- Boosting South-South Trade (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 14, 2004)
If Cancum 2003 saw the emergence of a new kind of South-South alliance in the world of trade diplomacy, Sao Paulo 2004 will test the willingness of the developing countries to enlarge the
- One For The Road: Another Kind Of Exclusion Politics (Tribune, Sridhar K. Chari, Jun 13, 2004)
Irrespective of the party you support, and laudable though the voters’ independence and the “democratic success” of the recent electoral exercise are, there is one thing that is worrying.
- Can The Upa Pull It Off? (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Jun 12, 2004)
There is a lot riding on the success of the Manmohan Singh Government. India cannot afford to lose yet another opportunity to promote inclusive economic and social growth.
- Farm Sector Is Crucial (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Jun 11, 2004)
LAL Bahadur Shastri, who succeeded India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, had coined a famous slogan: “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan”.
- Saving Small Farmers (Hindu, C.H. Hanumantha Rao, Jun 11, 2004)
A big push to public investment in rural infrastructure is essential.
- Life In Wto After The Peace Clause (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Jun 11, 2004)
IS THERE life for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after the expiry of the Peace Clause? The clause expired on December 31, 2003, unsung. Its extension was not considered in the WTO General Council Meeting held in mid-December 2003. By then it had ...
- The Power Of Ideas (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Jun 10, 2004)
Development should be the new mantra. Approaches are many, but an idea can be had from a Plan document prepared by Prof Raj Krishna and Prof D. T. Lakdawala in 1978, that underscored private sector dynamism to propel growth and create jobs.
- Cmp: What Face The Reforms? (Hindu, Sharad Joshi , Jun 09, 2004)
The new Government's Common Minimum Programme promises reforms with a human face. But this is easier said than done, as implementation would encounter problems political and fiscal. Sharad Joshi examines the CMP, putting it in historical perspective.
- The Oil Xenophobia (Business Line, S. Majumder , Jun 09, 2004)
With global oil prices shooting up, there is all-round fear that petrol and diesel prices will go up and the subsidy burden for kerosene and LPG will swell.
- Regional Trade Blocs Revisited (Business Line, R. Parthasarathy , Jun 09, 2004)
The emergence of information and communication technologies have helped spread production and service networks beyond the confines of national boundaries or trade blocs. But trade blocs still have an important role to play in expanding markets, gaining...
- Deliver On Promises (Pioneer, M K Dhar, Jun 09, 2004)
The United Progressive Alliance Government has been voted to power on a wave of mass discontent among the unemployed and rural voters.
- Cmp: What Face The Reforms? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Jun 09, 2004)
The new Government's Common Minimum Programme promises reforms with a human face. But this is easier said than done, as implementation would encounter problems political and fiscal. Sharad Joshi examines the CMP, putting it in historical persp ective.
- African Blooms Threaten Indian Roses (Tribune, Pamela Bhagat, Jun 09, 2004)
Owing to its moderate temperate climate throughout the year, Bangalore has emerged as a major flower growing region, contributing 60 per cent of the total rose cultivation in India. Dodballapuram, 50 km from Bangalore on the Hyderabad road, was best known
- Populism Versus Responsibility (Hindu, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jun 09, 2004)
With the Railways Minister planning a populist Rail Budget, the divestment agenda hamstrung by the Left and power sops being doled out to farmers and domestic consumers in some States
- Regional Trade Blocs Revisited (Hindu, R. Parthasarathy , Jun 09, 2004)
The emergence of information and communication technologies have helped spread production and service networks beyond the confines of national boundaries or trade blocs.
- The Oil Xenophobia (Hindu, S. Majumder , Jun 09, 2004)
WITH global oil prices shooting up, there is all-round fear that petrol and diesel prices will go up and the subsidy burden for kerosene and LPG will swell.
- The President Speaks (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 08, 2004)
In his first address to both Houses of Parliament after the elections, President A P J Abdul Kalam has struck the right note, which ought to be adhered to as an agenda for action by the new government.
- Baat Kursi Ki (Tribune, Trilochan Singh Trewn, Jun 08, 2004)
It is not enough to be a director in a company — or head of department — to be important unless one’s job involves public dealing of substance.
- Funding The Cmp (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2004)
TO SPREAD THE benefits of growth more equitably and improve the quality of public services, the Common Minimum Programme promises to effect a major increase in government spending.
- Interlinking Of Rivers - Buffetted By International Politics (Business Line, S. Padmanabhan , Jun 01, 2004)
Inter-linking of rivers has been much in the news. That the new Government at the Centre is also looking at the idea is clear from the Union Water Resources Minister, Mr Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi's recent statement that he would study the report of the ...
- Eliminating Hunger (Hindu, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Jun 01, 2004)
Food security and international partnership need to be discussed in a constructive manner between developed and developing states.
- Mcmedia & Market Jihad (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Jun 01, 2004)
So may be it's safe now to speak about the market without its leaping off a cliff, screaming. (Or maybe not quite. By close on Monday, share prices recovered nearly half the losses they logged soon after opening.)
- Upa's Common Minimum Programme I: Issues And Implications (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jun 01, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme has done a good job of delineating the "human face" of economic reforms. It contains a "solemn pledge" to provide a Government that will not only be accountable, transparent, responsible and responsive "at all times" but ...
- ‘I Want To Build A Great Airport In Delhi’ (Tribune, Gaurav Chaudhury, May 31, 2004)
Telecom conglomerate Bharti Enterprises recently joined the elite club of billion dollar companies. Its founder, Chairman and group Managing Director, Mr Sunil Bharti Mittal, has often been credited by many as being one of the principal personalities ...
- Return Of The Reformers (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , May 31, 2004)
THE reformers are back in power. The original reformers are back in place of the erstwhile converts, who apparently had taken their new religion too seriously and believed, wrongly though, that it was they who had brought the shine to parts of India.
- Sagarmala Project: Kochi Port Charts Major Plans (Business Line, Sajeev Kumar. V , May 31, 2004)
The Kochi port is taking initiatives under the Sagarmala Project to emerge as "a global hub port of India" offering single-window services for diverse requirements of the maritime trade.
- The Price Of Political Profligacy And Nepotism (Business Line, D. Murali , May 31, 2004)
WE have a new Government at the Centre and our Ministers are busy getting garlanded and felicitated, and generally warming up to their portfolios.
- Transgenic Muddle (Hindu, Meena Menon, May 31, 2004)
The focus must be less on biotechnology and more on cheaper and simpler ways of growing crops.
- Gas Price: De-Regulation Brooks No Delay (Business Line, Uttam Gupta , May 31, 2004)
The removal of price and distribution controls on domestic natural gas brooks no further delay if the suppliers of gas — both domestic and imported — are to get an impetus to augment supplies to the level of projected demand and help achieve full ...
- Wages Of Unemployment (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , May 31, 2004)
More than failing the farmers, the NDA fell because unemployment became excessive. But tackling rural and urban joblessness requires a broad-spectrum approach that goes beyond ideological purity. Needed are less simplistic and more comprehensive ...
- Re-Laying Credit Lines To Farms (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, May 31, 2004)
NEGLECT OVER 15-20 years has run the rural credit delivery system to seed, going by the Report of the Advisory Committee on Flow of Credit to Agriculture.
- Ploughing A Tough Field (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, May 31, 2004)
THE focus on agriculture by the new government at the Centre is welcome, but it should go beyond ministerial promises. There is a talk of doubling rural credit in three years. Not a difficult goal to achieve, but the interest burden on farmers also ...
- The Reds Under Manmohan's Bed (Asia Times, Sultan Shahin, May 28, 2004)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is now in place. The inevitable hiccups in the appointment of a 68-member council of ministers (cabinet) from as many as 12 alliance parties have been sorted out.
- Man Behind India's Economic Boom Named Prime Minister (San Francisco Chronicle, Correspondent or Reporter, May 20, 2004)
Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic boom, was named prime minister of the world's largest democracy on Wednesday -- a magnanimous act of patriotism and just plain street smarts by Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born leader of his party.
- 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
- Democracy, The Winner (Business Line, Pradip Shah, May 14, 2004)
WITH no single party emerging the clear winner, there is understandably some anxiety on the governance front. Some of our citizens who were `feeling good' may now be `feeling bad'.
- 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 . . .
- Let Us Hope The Darkness Has Passed (Guardian (UK), Arundhati Roy, May 14, 2004)
For many of us who feel estranged from mainstream politics, there are rare, ephemeral moments of celebration. Today is one of them. When India went to the polls, we were negotiating the dangerous cross-currents of neo-liberalism and neo-fascism - . . .
- 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.
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