The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 21, 2004

EDITORIAL
Easing ECB
SOME SANITY HAS returned to government policy on external commercial borrowings. About time too. The changes announced last November were not just unrealistic but actually a fraud on the business community for in the name of rationalising access, ... More

ECONOMY
Merits of good microeconomics — India proves Porter right
Competition among firms and the spectacular economic performance in recent years is principally the result of good microeconomics by the government. Firms have responded to the `new' microeconomics. Prof Michael Porter could choose to showcase India and India Inc. as proof that national wealth is actually created at the microeconomic level, says G. Ramachandran. More

POLITICS
Poll politics 2004
With the country getting into election mode, political parties are readying to do their best, or worst, to grab control of a liberalising India that wants to be a superpower. More

Sticking to guns
MR P. A. SANGMA, one of the most effective and affable Lok Sabha Speakers India has seen after Independence, has all but left the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Only the last rites remain. Mr Sharad Pawar and Mr ... More

LETTERS

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