OPINION
ANTI-DUMPING
Will US repeal Byrd Amendment?
The rest of the world is keenly watching whether the US would revoke the Byrd Amendment and thus help underpin the rule-based multilateral trading system.
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EDITORIAL
Pushing agro exports
IT IS UNCLEAR at this point of time if the initial euphoria over the new Foreign Trade Policy unveiled by the Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, will sustain. More a vision statement than a strategic action plan, the policy has set an ambitious ...
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FOREIGN TRADE
`Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?'
"COULD beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?' When finance pains, commerce can soothe. Thus, even as Mr Chidambaram is locking horns with transporters over service tax, Mr Kamal Nath ...
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POWER
AP's changing power equations
WHAT are the implications of supplying power free of cost to all farmers? Earlier, it was thought that it would only mean that the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, would have to provide for an ...
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BANKING
How `adequate' is Basel II
THE Bank for International Settlements has, for over the last decade and a half, been grappling with the issue of how much capital a bank should have. After scanning the environment in which banks operate and ...
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RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS
RBI Annual Report 2003-04 — Exhaustive and rigorous
Though the RBI, in its Annual Report 2003-04, has failed to shed light on the tremendous risk of the depreciation of government securities faced by commercial banks in case of a rise in interest rates, it maintains high standards of data presentatio n and analytical rigour. The narration of the developments in the year, and the assessment and prospects for the near future are on lines, which few will question, says A. Seshan.
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ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Serial scams
CORPORATE scams abroad are becoming an unending serial. We have had Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, Global Crossing, Adelphia Communications, Parmalat. The latest mega-shock to investors comes from the publication a few days ...
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LETTERS
Stock market
JK Pharma clarifies
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