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Articles 2421 through 2520 of 2635:
- Perks And Pinpricks (Indian Express, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Aug 21, 2001)
NOTHING so unites our chattering classes as indignation over Members of Parliament voting themselves fat salary increases for doing little more than walking out on their work.
- 'Our Exchange Rate Policy Has Stood The Test Of Time’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 21, 2001)
Responding to the Article IV review of the Indian economy by the International Monetary Fund, India’s Executive Director on the IMF Board.
- S&t: Driving China's Exports (Business Line, Anil K. Kanungo, Aug 21, 2001)
IN the 1990s, China witnessed profound changes in all spheres of life, particularly in science and technology, and trade.
- Trips Agreement Requires Flexible Interpretation (The Financial Express, P.K. Vasudeva, Aug 20, 2001)
Right from the day of the signing of the Eighth Round of Gatt (final act of the Uruguay Round) in 1994 and on the advent of World Trade Organisation (WTO) on January 1, 1995.
- Multilateralism Is The Worst Trading System, Bar All Others (The Economic Times, Mythili Bhusnurmath, Aug 20, 2001)
IT’S a peculiarly Indian trait. We hate home truths.
- Globalisation True, And False (Hindu, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Aug 20, 2001)
TODAY WHEN you say `globalisation' you may be understood as having in mind either the historical trend or a contemporary project, and this is no academic distinction.
- Politics Of Voodoo (Hindustan Times, Amulya Ganguli, Aug 20, 2001)
THE UNIVERSITY Grants Commission’s Chairman, Hari Gautam, must have been born under a lucky star. In saner times, a man with such weird ideas about the ‘science’ of astrology would not have climbed so high up the greasy pole.
- Deep-Rooted Evil (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 19, 2001)
Female foeticide in Punjab has its roots in social attitudes and blaming modern technology is not the answer, says Sarabjit Pandher.
- Customs Valuation Out Of Sync With Gatt Code (The Financial Express, Sunil Kumar, Aug 18, 2001)
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt) valuation code was implemented in India in 1988 when the provision of the Customs Act was amended.
- Cancel Third World Debt (Hindu, Achin Vanaik , Aug 18, 2001)
SINCE 1960, the world's wealth has increased eight times.
- Trade Facilitation And Wto (The Economic Times, S. Sundar, Aug 18, 2001)
THE FORTHCOMING Doha Ministerial Conference has put the debate on WTO issues in sharper focus.
- Why Developing Countries Can’t Agree On A New Doha Round (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 17, 2001)
IN MY last article (ET, 3 August) I had argued that non-implementation of the Uruguay round agenda (URA) was a legitimate grouse of the developing countries.
- Death Warrant For Four Million (Hindustan Times, Praful Bidwai, Aug 17, 2001)
It took social reformers like Phule and Shahu Maharaj a lifetime of painful struggle — supplemented by Bentinck’s sati ban — to highlight the prevalence of obnoxious anti-human practices, and the need for radical change.
- Zealously Guarding Their Turf (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Aug 16, 2001)
It is all a matter of perspective. The Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena relationship has turned acrimonious not because the former suddenly feels embarrassed by Hindutva or regards Sharad Pawar as a more reliable ally.
- Trade As Strategy: Chinese Lessons (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 16, 2001)
CONSIDER THE following paradox: China is a closed society with an open mind and India is an open society with a closed mind.
- Time To Shelve A New Wto Round (The Economic Times, Raatnakar Adhikari, Aug 15, 2001)
STAKES are high at the Doha ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation. Members are yet to agree on some of the major issues, but the time is running out.
- Learning To Trust Is Key To Competition (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Aug 15, 2001)
The disagreement between the United States and the European Union (EU) on the GE-Honeywell merger is all the evidence one needs of a competition policy being both intensely important and highly controversial.
- Zealously Guarding Their Turf (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Aug 15, 2001)
It is all a matter of perspective. The Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena relationship has turned acrimonious not because the former suddenly feels embarrassed by Hindutva or regards Sharad Pawar as a more reliable ally.
- Exit Policy For Agriculture (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Aug 15, 2001)
THE first generation economic reforms launched by Dr Manmohan Singh completely bypassed agriculture.
- India Won’t Be “Steamrollered” Into New Round (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Aug 14, 2001)
India hardened its line against a new round of global trade talks on Monday, accusing developed countries of trying to set an agenda that insults poor countries by ignoring their concerns.
- Unjust Peace (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 14, 2001)
The United Nations has declared 2001-10 as the decade of peace and non-violence.
- More Egg On Our Face (Telegraph, Bibek Debroy, Aug 14, 2001)
From November 9-13, the fourth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization will be held in Doha, Qatar.
- Snail's Pace (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 14, 2001)
FEBRUARY 28, 2001: ``There is urgent need to further deepen reforms to set the stage for higher growth...
- Fruits Of Economic Fundamentalism (Tribune, Sumer Kaul, Aug 14, 2001)
Seattle, Washington, Davos and now, last month, Genoa. Some 70,000 men and women from all over the western world gathered in this Italian city.
- Trade Pressures (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 13, 2001)
MR ROBERT ZOELLICK, Trade Representative of the new Republican Government of Mr George Bush, said in a recent interview that he ``lives in a world of practical reality''.
- Flexibility Is The Key (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Aug 11, 2001)
AS THE WTO’s fourth ministerial meeting draws near, India has to make up its mind on a new round of trade negotiations.
- Preparing For Doha (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 11, 2001)
WITH PREPARATIONS FOR the Doha ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation in November still deadlocked over the issues to be taken up for negotiation.
- Limit The Probes (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 11, 2001)
IT WILL BE welcome if countries sparingly use anti-subsidy investigations, the possibility of which has been mentioned in the Global Trade Protection Report 2000 brought out by the UK law firm, Rowe and Maw.
- Get The Best Trade-Offs (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 10, 2001)
The commerce ministry must rethink its strategy on WTO.
- Shun Minimalism (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 10, 2001)
DESPITE official protestations to the contrary, it is difficult to miss the link between the US offer of increased trade access under GSP and the coming WTO ministerial at Doha.
- Globalisation -- No Shortcut To Development (Business Line, S. Venu , Aug 10, 2001)
AS THE debate on globalisation proliferates, it gets more confusing. Is globalisation a source of economic growth and prosperity, as most economists and many in the policy community believe?
- Washington Is Listening (Hindustan Times, J. N. Dixit , Aug 10, 2001)
THE NEW US ambassador, Robert Blackwill, arrived in New Delhi on July 27. He has experience as a career foreign service officer and was a political campaign strategist for the Republican Party for more than a decade.
- Controlling Knowhow (The Economic Times, Biswajit Dhar, Aug 10, 2001)
WORK on exploring the relationship between trade and investment in the WTO has evoked a low profile response in the past few years.
- No 'Buy'-Products (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 09, 2001)
PROTOCOL is a funny thing, as one freshly initiated IRS officer discovered in strange fashion.
- A Message On Labour Linkage For Mr Zoellick And Mr Maran (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Aug 09, 2001)
It might surprise him to know this, but commerce minister Murasoli Maran could be doing US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick a big favour.
- Icrier At 20: Full Throttle, In Many Directions (The Financial Express, Rohit Bansal, Aug 09, 2001)
It started with a phone call 23 years back. The Ford Foundation telephoned the European Community commissioner for development in Brussels, Claude Cheysson, wondering if the EC would want some money to study development co-operation within the Third World
- New Wto Round & India (Hindu, Muchkund Dubey , Aug 09, 2001)
THE U.S. Trade Representative, Mr. Robert Zoellick, is in India this week for discussions on a whole range of bilateral and multilateral trade issues.
- Tied To The Npa Stake (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Aug 09, 2001)
``YOU borrow in lakhs from a bank, you are in trouble with the bank; you borrow in crores, the bank is in trouble with you.''
- Multiple Borehole Logger From Ngri (Business Line, M. Somasekhar, Aug 08, 2001)
IN THE search for underground minerals with potential economic value and for sources of water, a wide range of tools and methods have been developed.
- Transparency In Procurement (The Economic Times, P. P. Prabhu, Aug 08, 2001)
IN THE run up to the next Ministerial meeting of WTO scheduled in November 2001, at Doha, the developed countries, especially the EU.
- Co-Operative, Not Corporate, Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Aug 07, 2001)
THE just concluded agriculture committee meeting of the principal party in governance at New Delhi recommending ``contract farming'' is ominous.
- That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles (The Economic Times, Shubham Mukherjee, Aug 07, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT has been tinkering with the food processing sector for a long time but only on a piecemeal basis. But a full fledged new policy has yet to see the light of day.
- Resist A Wto Framework On Investment (The Economic Times, Nagesh Kumar, Aug 07, 2001)
DEVELOPED countries have been constantly trying to widen the scope of WTO regime on investment beyond the provisions of TRIMs Agreement.
- Co-Operative, Not Corporate, Agriculture (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Aug 07, 2001)
THE just concluded agriculture committee meeting of the principal party in governance at New Delhi recommending ``contract farming'' is ominous.
- Why India Should Support A New Round Of Negotiations (The Economic Times, Pradeep S. Mehta, Aug 06, 2001)
WHEN Thiru Murasoli Maran talks to Robert Zoellick this week, the best thing he can do is be positive.
- Dragon Comes Closer Home (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 05, 2001)
INDIA should lend an attentive ear to the smaller Saarc states’ demand that China be accepted as a member of the regional grouping.
- From One Scandal To Another (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 05, 2001)
HERE IS a story: a man goes to the police station to complain that in the dark of night a gang of robbers came to his house, entered forcibly, assaulted him and his wife, and decamped with cash and jewellery.
- Dragon Comes Closer Home (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Aug 04, 2001)
INDIA should lend an attentive ear to the smaller Saarc states’ demand that China be accepted as a member of the regional grouping.
- Lessons Not Learnt At The Wto (Hindu, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Aug 04, 2001)
IT IS not too much of an exaggeration to say that the next couple of months will decide the shape of the World Trade Organisation in the future and how far the institution is going to enjoy the confidence of a majority of the world's Governments.
- Life Beyond The Market (Hindustan Times, Praful Bidwai, Aug 03, 2001)
TWO IMAGES from gorgeous Genoa, one true and the other misleading, will long remain etched on the public mind.
- Enron And Globalisation (Business Line, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 03, 2001)
IT IS no more a secret that there was some funny business in the finalisation of the Enron Power project.
- Strategic Weakness (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Aug 03, 2001)
AS countries refine their positions in the run up to the Doha ministerial of the WTO, India has chosen an extreme corner for itself.
- Cotton Concerns (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 03, 2001)
THE `SAVE COTTON, Save Textiles' conference held last week in Coimbatore has once again brought into sharp focus the imperative of evolving medium- to long-term strategies for building global competitiveness into the country's enormous cotton sector.
- Wto And The Doha Round: A Developing Country Perspective (The Economic Times, Manoj Pant, Aug 03, 2001)
THE DEVELOPMENT countries seem to want to declare the Uruguay round a success and start with a new round: the Millennium round at Doha.
- The Making Of Modern Indian Art: The Progressives (Telegraph, Ella Datta, Aug 03, 2001)
It is a very romantic story. Just the kind that myths are made of. Six young men, from very ordinary backgrounds, came to Bombay with a dream.
- Export Subsidy Schemes Need To Wake Up To Wto Reality (The Financial Express, Rajeev Ahuja, Aug 03, 2001)
The practice of giving export incentives is near universal, and India is no exception. However, not all incentives are permitted under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement.
- A Look At India’s Strategic Interests (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Aug 02, 2001)
FOR the last two months the media and its young television anchors spent huge amounts of time and money trying to discover “concessions” that should be given to Pakistan’s military ruler even before he arrived in India.
- Shuffling Officers As Chess Pawns (Tribune, V. Eashwar Anand, Aug 02, 2001)
THE Union Government’s directive to the Tamil Nadu Government to relieve three IPS officers for posting at the Cabinet Secretariat in New Delhi.
- Sparring Over A New Round (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 02, 2001)
THE ELUSIVE CONSENSUS over the contents of Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) scheduled later this year at Doha.
- Fresh Study Of The Wto Agenda (Tribune, Sucha Singh Gill, Jul 31, 2001)
INDIA has been a member of the WTO for the last six and half years. As a successor to GATT, the WTO has a much larger agenda.
- Wto Ruling Against Us On Steel Can Work In India’s Favour (The Financial Express, P.K. Vasudeva, Jul 31, 2001)
Rejection of US appeal by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel and its upholding a ruling that the United States had acted illegally in increasing duties on Japanese steel.
- Farm Credit: Banks Must Be More Proactive (Business Line, B. Yerram Raju, Jul 31, 2001)
THE Reserve Bank of India is on the threshold of preparing a policy perspective for the next 15 years, and another committee may be constituted to develop it.
- Reforms: Why Things Aren't Hunky-Dory (Business Line, Gautam Murthy, Jul 30, 2001)
GLOBALISATION and marketisation of economics, politics and culture are primarily spearheaded by global capitalism. Many individuals are opposed to the crass commercialism and consumerism that globalisation brings with it.
- The Terms For Trade (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Jul 30, 2001)
Which way will India sway at the Doha WTO meet?
- The World Is One (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 28, 2001)
Anti-globalization is radical chic. This glosses over the fact that Karl Marx was the first prophet of globalization.
- Welcome Wto Steel Ruling (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 28, 2001)
THE RECENT RULING by a WTO appellate body that the US had acted illegally in increasing duties on Japanese steel imports.
- America And The New World Order (Tribune, M.S.N. Menon, Jul 27, 2001)
INDIA is moving closer and closer to America. This is now much in evidence. Are we destined to be a satellite of America? Or, can we have a meaningful relation?
- Us-Eu To Work For Stronger Rules-Based System In Doha (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 27, 2001)
Excerpts from the statement of US Trade Representative Robert B Zoellick, July 17, 2001 :
- Need To Ponder Phoolan's Caveat (Pioneer, Arijit Sen, Jul 27, 2001)
The name Phoolan Devi means the goddess of flowers. Phoolan's life, however had little similarity with the gentle existence of a flower.
- Getting The Hang Of Biosafety (Indian Express, Monica Kaul, Jul 27, 2001)
We are not prepared for the imminent flood of genetically modified foods and organisms.
- Beijing Vows To Keep Yuan Stable After Wto Entry (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 26, 2001)
China will maintain the stability of its yuan currency after the country joins the World Trade Organisation, central bank governor Dai Xianglong was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
- Caught In The Food Muddle (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Jul 25, 2001)
EITHER the babus in the Agriculture, Food and Commerce Ministries have no mind of their own, which most likely is the case, or it is pure chicanery or, perhaps, a combination of both.
- Us And India Can Be Natural Partners In The Global Economic Arena: Rocca (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 25, 2001)
I have a simple but, I think, powerful message for you today: the Bush Administration is committed to strengthening and intensifying our relations with India.
- Indian Steel Industry In A Tight Spot (The Financial Express, S. R. Kasbekar, Jul 25, 2001)
It is ironic that US President George W Bush’s first trade act betrays his protectionist bias.
- Doha Met: Implementation Is The Key (The Economic Times, T. S. Vishwanath , Jul 24, 2001)
WITH just about 50 working days left for the Doha ministerial of the World Trade Organisation fear is mounting that the Fourth Ministerial will go the Seattle way.
- From Seattle To Genoa: Globe Trotting Against Globalisation (The Economic Times, Neeraj Kaushal, Jul 24, 2001)
AT THE WTO meeting in Seattle two years ago, a number of demonstrators did not know what WTO stood for.
- Economy: Clueless Pursuit (Tribune, P. Raman , Jul 24, 2001)
A prominent business editor recently lamented that Indian corporates are so frustrated that they remain utterly clueless about their investment plans for the decade.
- Rich Versus Poor (Hindustan Times, Editorial, The Hindustan Times, Jul 23, 2001)
Protests against the rich countries, as seen at the ongoing Group of Eight meeting in Genoa, have become a regular feature.
- False Hopes (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jul 21, 2001)
THE RECENTLY released Human Development Report 2001 gives India’s HDR rank as 115, which is significantly higher than the 128 rank of HDR 2000.
- Grim Export Outlook (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jul 21, 2001)
AS THE GLOBAL economic slowdown begins to bite, India's exporters are wincing.
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