OPINION
EDITORIAL
Economics of prepayment
THE PREPAYMENT OF official Japanese credit is one more in a series of such transactions that New Delhi has undertaken in recent times. The latest announcement, for instance, comes on the heels of a decision earlier this year to prepay Canadian ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Cell-phones and airline safety
THE mobile telecommunications industry supports the airline industry's view to play it safe and agrees that cellular phones should be turned off when requested by the airlines, however, some of the claims in the article ...
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BUDGET
Interim Budget: An economist's delight, too
"The country's macro economic situation is better than it has ever been in the last fifty years." — the Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh AT THE entrance to the Finance Minister's room in the ...
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ECONOMY
Development aid and political power
THE first leap year of this millennium has started off on a contrasting note. A sea of humanity gathered in Mumbai for the World Social Forum in mid-January to express anger and anguish over what they consider the ...
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A reality check on the `feel good'
"The economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less." — Frank Clark THE BJP-led coalition at the Centre has decided to go in for early elections because, among other things, of something called ...
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POLITICS
Electoral rolls
REFUTING media reports of strictures of the Election Commission consultant, Mr K. J. Rao, over "mass irregularities" in the State's electoral rolls, the Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer, Mr M. Sarangi, has said that ...
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EDUCATION
What do the IIMs `do'?
The Human Resource Development Minister, Mr Murli Manohar Joshi, has justifiably raised important issues pertinent to the contribution of the IIMs. His assertion that the quality of the six business schools is independent of the fees is defensible, s ays G. Ramachandran, looking at the fees and the way and outcome of IIM education.
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BANKING
Banking sector reform: Skewed dividends
THE last RBI report on `Trend and Progress of Banking in India' (2002-03) indicated that the return on assets of all scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) — the ratio of net profit to total assets — showed a ...
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LETTERS
TRAI guidelines
Deficit-GDP ratios
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