The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, November 05, 2003

Blame not the rupee
WITH THE MID-TERM Review of Credit and Monetary Policy coming close on the heels of the release of trade data that revealed a slower export growth of 10 per cent (in dollar terms) in the first half of this fiscal, compared to 18 per cent in the ... More

FOREX

Look beyond yuan revaluation
China has to evolve its own market-related exchange rate in keeping with its growing economic stature. It is too big an economy to keep its currency pegged to the dollar. Before doing that it has to raise its financial, legal and corporate systems to acceptable global standards. It is these reforms that the US and others should be urging China to expedite rather than calling for a revaluation of its currency, says Dharmalingam Venugopal. More

POLITICS

Partnerships with defence firms — HAL buffeted by approval process
WHEN the United States imposed economic and military sanctions following India's nuclear tests in May 1998, the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) was forced to return three US-made engines for its prototype ... More

MANAGEMENT

Multi-task managers
A SERIOUS drawback of management education imparted by business schools throughout the world is the compartmentalised approach to the various disciplines such as economics, marketing, finance, trade, investment and the ... More

INTERVIEW

`Plantation sector needs structural change'
"The new thinking is that the plantation sector, comprising the farm and manufacturing segment, should be prepared for a structural change in the 21st century. This means that productivity levels should be linked to the labour employed and marketing strategies should be linked to global markets instead of just on local sales... " More

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