The Hindu Business Line : Friday, August 15, 2003

Clear on Cancun
THE WTO NEGOTIATIONS position paper circulated by the Centre reveals clearly the country's stand on a number of critical issues that will figure at the World Trade Organisation's Cancun Ministerial. The burden of the position paper is that the ... More

INSIGHT

Not the best bet for all cos, shareholders — ICAI's minimum dividend proposal
THE proposal by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) that companies make compulsory minimum dividend payouts goes against the tenet of corporate finance. Companies should be allowed to adopt their ... More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

Strong rules, weakly enforced
A. J. P. TAYLOR, the famous and popular historian applied for a fellowship in one of the premier Oxford colleges, while starting out on his student career. A committee of history professors interviewed him. Upon studying a sample of Taylor's ... More

ECONOMY

Let us politicise growth
Democratic politics and competitive political activity are the two prime forces that comprehensively permeate India's economic space. The key to kick-starting and sustaining growth lies in politicising it. Politicising economic reform and growth will produce all-round prosperity because politics is the art of the possible, says G. Ramachandran. More

SMALL SAVINGS

Is EPF running the danger signal?
The Government failed to use opportunities to prescribe prudential norms for the EPF, mark its portfolio to market, free it in terms of investment decisions and align returns with performance. More

TRENDS

Profound or puerile?
"PURSUIT of material comforts does not always lead to happiness". What India's sages had discovered millennia ago, is laid out in the form of a profound (or pompous, pretentious or puerile, as the case may ... More

BOOKS

Changing corporate genetic codes
ALMOST a decade after it was first published in 1994, the path-breaking book "Competing for the future", by Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad, is the guiding principle behind many a strategy in hundreds of ... More

LETTERS

Laloo in Pakistan

ONGC crash

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