The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Doha Round on slow track
THE DECEMBER 15 deadline set at Cancun has come and gone without any concrete progress being made on the Doha Round multilateral trade negotiations. In fact, what has been agreed on, albeit informally, by the majority of members of the World ... More

ECONOMY

Making India an economic superpower — Stem the rot in governance
Governance failure is the single biggest impediment to achieving a higher growth rate of the economy. More

FOREX

$100 billion: Understated, underexplained
A surfeit of dollars, unless taken off the market, automatically raises the price of the rupee on account of the `excess demand'. India, like China, has been trying hard to resist this increase in the `value' of its domestic currency, which has an ad verse impact on exports and the profits of exporters. More

SUGAR

The bittersweet saga of sugar
Though the cycle of shortage and surplus in the sugar industry has been overcome in the last six years with the emergence of efficient and modern mills, the carryover stock of sugar in the last four years has resulted in hefty carry-over costs, insur ance charges and storage problems. G. Srinivasan looks at these and other troubles plaguing the sector. More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Emergence of the fractal savant
INDIAN industry is at the crossroads. More and more Indian companies are coming into the global limelight. For instance, ONGC, Reliance, Hindustan Lever, IOC, Wipro, SBI, Infosys, ITC, Ranbaxy, and HDFC figure in a ... More

BOOKS

Business fiction
A POST-graduate student of business management sought my help for his dissertation on business fiction. Incidentally, he was curious to know, why like the abbreviation SF for Science Fiction, B F for Business Fiction ... More

LETTERS

Job creation

Merger of Ministries

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