OPINION
EDITORIAL
Trade impact of EU-25
FROM MAY 1, the European Union has 25 members in place of the 15 since 1995. The expansion has important implications for India. As of now the EU is New Delhi's largest trading and investment partner — accounting for nearly a quarter of ...
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ECONOMY
Money on a merry-go-round — The recycling of poor country resources
IN its report on Global Development Finance 2004, the World Bank has, as usual, done a professionally competent job of analysing the trend in development finance over the last year and ...
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POLITICS
Barbarism in Iraq
PHOTOGRAPHS of horrible torture inflicted by the units of the US Army on Iraqi prisoners detained in the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, and the accompanying heart-rending descriptions, have left the people of the ...
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MANAGEMENT
Short-term pressures on management
A FUNDAMENTAL question that strategy deals with concerns the decisions and actions that a firm must undertake to ensure desired long-term performance. The decisions need to be taken today but the results may only be ...
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DERIVATIVES MARKETS
Options for the week
SEBI is considering a proposal to allow the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) to introduce weekly-settled equity derivatives. The introduction of such short-term instruments may have a positive feedback on the ...
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT
PURA: Emulating the Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs did not locate their businesses in cities but in villages. They used the higher purchasing power of money in the rural areas as a form of capital. Indian entrepreneurs do not locate their businesses in the rural areas the way their American counterparts did. So far, they may have been justified. But a change in their mindset is necessary to make them realise that PURA gives then an option to emulate the Americans, says P. V. Indiresan.
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EXPORTS & IMPORTS
Will rupee billing help exporters?
THERE is a clamour from exporters and export promotion agencies for rupee billing. The FIEO (Federation of Indian Exports Organisations) and the EPCH (Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts) are reported to have ...
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LETTERS
Agricultural subsidies
IPO payment system
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