The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 10, 2003

Bringing price stability to futures
THOUGH stability of agricultural commodity prices has been desirable internationally, it is yet to be achieved because of the current emphasis on market determination. Macroeconomic developments demand that the ... More

EDITORIAL

Illusory concessions
EXEMPTING UNITS IN Special Economic Zones from contributing to employee provident funds or paying premiums to Employee State Insurance Corporations, far from conferring any significant cost advantage, could well turn out to be a disincentive for ... More

ECONOMY

Running ahead of reality
If China and India maintain their high growth rates for the next decade and more, and if Japan finally emerges out of its economic funk, then Asia would become the global economic centre of gravity. Its stock markets need not be slave to developments in the US economy or in the American stock market. However, that is work in process, says V. Anantha Nageswaran. More

The grammar of globalisation
THE term globalisation was first used by Theodore Levitt in an article he wrote 20 years ago in the Harvard Business Review. He used it in a limited sense — as a synonym for standardisation of a brand for ... More

Chimera of economic pre-eminence
FIVE WEEKS ago, Goldman Sachs dropped a bombshell when it suggested in one of its periodic global papers that the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) were poised to take on the economic leadership of the ... More

ENVIRONMENT

Safe chemical zones, a paradox?
IN MID-OCTOBER, within a space of seven days, three major business houses with exposure in the petroleum and chemical sectors in Gujarat faced major setbacks and their production cycles were disrupted one way or the ... More

MUTUAL FUNDS

Investors should consider risk-adjusted returns
RISK management is likely to get an impetus in India with the entry of global risk management firms such as Riskmetrics. This US firm recently tied up with XLRI, Jamshedpur to facilitate the latter's risk management ... More

NEWSPAPERS & PUBLISHING

Embedded or in bed?
FOR THE first time during the recent Iraq war, the Americans came up with the rather bizarre idea of "embedding" media representatives in the various military formations. This was ostensibly to stop unauthorised ... More

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