The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, March 17, 2004

EDITORIAL
Going beyond disinvestment
WITH THE GOVERNMENT announcing the selling price of its stake in ONGC, the current round of disinvestment in select public sector units has for all practical purposes been brought to a successful conclusion. There is bound to be some disagreement ... More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES
Will and settlement of property
There is a large gap in the amount to be spent after death compared to settling when one is alive. It is high time the Law Commission took initiatives to set right this discrimination. More

ECONOMY
Globalisation and market mentality
FIVE decades ago, the Viennese social economist, Karl Polanyi, wrote a celebrated essay, "Our Obsolete Market Mentality," arguing that market-driven thinking was a vestige of the Industrial Revolution. Now was the ... More

Which comes first, domestic or global inequity?
Should the people of the developing countries first cooperate with their leaders, however iniquitous, and redress global inequity or, should they first seek domestic equity and deal with the global issue later? Mainstream economists have their reaso ns for assigning higher priority to domestic inequity. More

MANAGEMENT
Age-old debate
TWO or one at the top? Bifurcate or amalgamate? This debate on whether the posts of the chairman and the chief executive in a corporate should be combined or separated is perhaps as old as the one about chicken and the ... More

WTO
Get WTO back on talking terms
After the Cancun Ministerial, the WTO negotiations appear to have come to a halt, with most players pre-occupied with issues at home. But there is little doubt that, sooner rather than later, the world community will need to sit down and evolve a mul tilateral system of world trade that will be free, equal and viable. The basic principles of the GATT/WTO system are unimpeachably sound, says Sharad Joshi. More

HUMAN RESOURCES
New HRM paradigm for PSUs
Creating an industrial environment that facilitates maximum realisation of an individual's natural capabilities contributes to the good of the firm, state and society. More

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