OPINION
CORPORATE DISPUTES
Face-off
FEUDS among relations and siblings involved in running family businesses are always a matter for sadness and puzzlement. Sad, because they drain away energies and resources from worthwhile pursuits furthering the ...
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EDITORIAL
The cotton calamity
PREDICTABLY, AT THE 63rd plenary of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) in Mumbai, the common refrain among many Asian and African producing countries was the adverse fallout of acute market volatility on growers and, in the ...
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COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES
Talk of court news: Who loses and who wins
THESE days, there is more action in courts than elsewhere, and judges seem to have the last word on almost anything. What fills the media is the "talk of court news," as a line in King Lear goes and the curiosity ...
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ECONOMY
Horizontal fiscal imbalances — Equity and efficacy options for transfers
THE Twelfth Finance Commission (TFC) must be toiling on different criteria for the horizontal distribution of shareable tax revenue — the most crucial and critical part of the recommendations. The Centre-State ...
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FOREIGN TRADE
South-South trade co-operation — India must further bloc ambitions
THE recently announced National Foreign Trade Policy (NFTP) 2004-2009 lays down an ambitious target of achieving an export growth rate that will enable India to account for 1.5 per cent of the world trade by 2009. While ...
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FOREX
To fight common problems...
Create a regional forex corpus
Over the last year India's forex reserves have grown to a staggering $123 billion, and rising. Other Asian countries too hold large reserves in relation to their GDP. But such a large forex corpus has its costs too. Perhaps the solution to holding ex cessive reserves lies in evolving a regional mechanism with neighbouring countries that would enable their central banks fight jointly any crisis involving one or more member countries.
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INFRASTRUCTURE
Airport restructuring — Obstacles to a smooth take-off
In the Delhi and Mumbai airport modernisation, the crucial issue is the lack of adequate runway facilities. This cramps quick turnaround of aircraft and the problem is aggravated by the absence of parking bays. The runway issue is also beginning to h it new foreign carriers wanting to fly into India. The immediate focus should thus be on building runways and parking bays. The terminals can come later, says R. Krishnan.
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PETROLEUM
The oil price riddle
THE Bharatiya Janata Party appears to have discovered the merit of highlighting economic issues impacting the people. After the walk-out from the Lok Sabha on Wednesday on the first day of the winter session over the ...
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LETTERS
Expertise in Tribunals
Growing tamarind
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