OPINION
ANIMALS & LIVESTOCK
Transparency in selling cattle products
THE US President, went for a quail hunt to celebrate the start of 2004. Talking to newsmen soon after, he advised the citizens to continue eating beef. A few weeks earlier, the Secretary (that is, Minister) of ...
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EDITORIAL
Insignificant, impractical
THE SECOND SET of announcements by the Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, on Friday, is bereft of any immediate fiscal significance. Worse, the measures are impractical and belong to the realm of operational decisions of financial institutions ...
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BUDGET
Budget burlesque
THE British have a penchant for romanticising the most routine activities and happenings and investing them with historic significance. Thus, they have managed to invest with heavenly halo the creeping ivy and the ...
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A Finance Minister in a hurry
A PRE-POLL bonanza announced by the Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, is almost without precedent. That it has done harm to the sanctity of the Budget process is a comment that most observers would make. But, more ...
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ECONOMY
Managing managers, a labouring problem
The same money and labour that performs well and makes profits with foreign management suffers grievously when left in Indian hands. If we are unable to exploit fully either surplus labour, or capital or managers, then the blame should rest only on our capitalists. Even though a few entrepreneurs have developed globally competitive businesses, most appear to be less than competent, says P. V. Indiresan.
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POLITICS
Exercise in political economy
As a matter of principle, governments announce important policy measures with the intention of implementing them; and to be able to implement them, governments must have sufficient time at their disposal. In other words, in normal circumstances, crit ical economic measures are generally announced at the beginning of a five-year term or at the beginning of a financial year.
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EDUCATION
B-schools — Why does the Govt want to manage them?
Institutions of excellence thrive on autonomy, innovation and empowerment. Worldwide, they are self-driven and self-governed, pursuing growth on their own terms.
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STOCK MARKETS
It is good, on the margin
SEBI's proposal to introduce margin trading augurs well for the stock market. Margin trading is likely to improve volumes in the long-term, leading to better price efficiency. The flip side is that the tendency for ...
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LETTERS
IFCI merger
Free trade area
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