OPINION
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Indo-US see-saw
INDIA and the US have been in a peculiar kind of a bind or a bond, if you will, for over 60 years. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the US President during the Second World War, was the first prominent American leader to take ...
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India should keep off MNF
THE penchant of the Foreign Minister, Mr Natwar Singh, for saying first and thinking later is becoming more and more pronounced. He tied himself into knots making some policy pronouncements on Pakistan immediately after ...
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EDITORIAL
Why a regulator for steel?
A REGULATORY COMMISSION for overseeing issues of prices and distribution of steel, as proposed by the Union Minister for Steel, Chemicals and Fertilisers, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan, is not only impractical but may well turn out to be a cure that is ...
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ECONOMY
Common Minimum Programme — Will politics let economics win?
The Common Minimum Programme's approach to public sector disinvestment and labour reforms is worrying. It is not clear whether the proceeds from sale of shares of PSUs will be used to create public assets which would benefit the people on a continuin g basis. And for all the talk about the need for a free hire-and-fire policy to attract fresh investment and create jobs, the hardship imposed on laid-off workers cannot be dismissed.
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Shanghai Global Conference — For a development strategy
AT THE height of technological progress and economic globalisation, increasingly propelled by global market fundamentalism, most developing countries are at an impasse. The spectre of poverty, hunger and disease ...
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TEA
South Indian tea auctions — Losing flavour?
THE tea estates in South India have had another bad year in 2003, fourth in a row after the boom of the 1990s. Compared to the fairly attractive average price of Rs 76.42 a kg in the auctions in 1998, Indian tea ...
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SMALL SAVINGS
Case for reducing PF rates
By ignoring the economic and democratic cases for reducing the contractual rate of return on Provident Fund savings and by hiking the PF rate, the Government will exacerbate the economic and social environment of the weaker sections. The UPA will be undermining its commitment to serving the electorate as inclusively as possible. It would jeopardise the achievement of the economic growth target set by the CMP, say G. Ramachandran and S. Naresh.
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LETTERS
G-8 beckons
Growth with equity
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