The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Who will oversee IDBI?
FROM PURELY A technical standpoint, the Centre's proposal to confer, through legislative action, a banking licence on the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) is perfectly valid. After all, the Reserve Bank of India is a creation of the ... More

AGRICULTURE

WTO and agriculture — Make fair costs the basis of trade
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 an d subsidies and eliminate quotas to level the playing field. More

POLITICS

Uneasy lies the UP head...
After much horse-trading, the Samajwadi Party leader, Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav, has won the vote of confidence in the UP Assembly. But the political shenanigans are far from over in the State, and for Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav the crown is but of thorns, says Rasheeda Bhagat. More

MANAGEMENT

Fractals and the future of organisations
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 dev elopment of organisations? This is the first in a series of articles that looks at fractal dynamics in organisations. More

TERRORISM

Credibility lost
TOMORROW will mark the completion of two years since the US had first-hand experience of the horrors of terrorism on its homeland, its national capital and the Pentagon. Many countries have been victims of this blight before, notable among them ... More

WTO

From Maran to Jaitley
MUCH has been written in the run-up to Cancun and much will be written after the event, when ministers of 146 countries begin their next round of deliberations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Wednesday. Yet, so ... More

What harvest will it be at Cancun?
The Fifth WTO Ministerial to meet in Cancun in Mexico will take forward the agenda set forth in the Fourth Ministerial at Doha in 2001. As of now, negotiations on the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) have has not yielded any significant benefits to the developing countries as expected. In addition, the developed countries, such as the US and the EU, seem to be in no mood to change the magnitude of their agricultural support. India is therefore wary of further committing on issues of market access and tariff reductions given the experience it has had with the developed countries on issues of implementation. More

LETTERS

PPF is still relevant

Liquidity and repo cut

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