OPINION
EDITORIAL
Open those doors
IT HAS BY now become routine at every forum for prime ministers and finance ministers to make entreaties to foreign businessmen to invest in this country, especially in infrastructure. At times the invitations have been specific to certain ...
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FOREIGN TRADE
Ambition gets Asean aggressive
Asean is now seeking Asia-wide opportunities for sustained export-led growth and the intricate web of trade accords planned will certainly lead to a significantly higher share of Asian exports in world trade in the coming decades. However, this may not substantially alter the pre-eminent position held by Western Europe and North America, says S. Sethuraman.
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Name of the new war is `trade'
THE world's second largest economy, Japan, hinges its hopes on trade surplus to help in achieving growth beyond the 0.1 per cent recorded for the last quarter, even as China is getting ready to play a major role in the ...
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BANKING
When banks merge and emerge bigger
MERGER appears to be the buzzword in the Indian banking industry today. There have been a few mergers in the recent past, some out of compulsion and othersout of strategic planning. A consensus seems to be emerging, ...
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IPR
Issues patently questionable
IN LESS than two months, India will be obliged to do the follow-up on the WTO-mandated product patent stipulations, and the Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, made a strident statement: "Our patent law is currently fully ...
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INTERVIEW
`Logistics, India's weakest link in exports' — Mr M. Rafeeque Ahmed, President, FIEO
Exporters face innumerable infrastructure bottlenecks. Inland movement of goods remains a major obstacle, as exporters are helpless in the face of high cost of transport and inter-State and intra-State barriers.
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CONSUMERISM
Consumers unite!
IT IS a call specially directed to consumers in India, since they are often left in the lurch when they most need help. One looks in vain in India for the kind of sustained activism that consumers and their associations ...
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LETTERS
Food processing
Largesse for Kashmir
Privatisation of PSU banks
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