The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, January 25, 2005

A wake-up call
THE FINANCE MINISTER, Mr P. Chidambaram's lament that India Inc has not progressed enough on the issue of corporate governance is a timely wake-up call in the context of company performance in recent years. At a time when the stock market has ... More

ECONOMY

Tale of two LPGs
THE other day in a mixed gathering of intellectuals, housewives and commoners, a highbrow speaker lampooned them for being obsessed with the mundane LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) when the Western world was enjoying the ... More

Fiscal reforms by States — Will the new incentive plan pay off?
The Twelfth Finance Commission is said to have devised an incentive scheme based on fiscal performance, which would meet the objectives prescribed for the Fiscal Reform Facility and simultaneously accord debt relief to States. But will it work? More

FOREX

Wisdom of the weak dollar
For the US, the best possible way to knock down internal wages is to embrace a weak dollar. Also, it heals the American economy and vitalises the developing economies, says G. Ramachandran More

WTO

The future of the WTO
The WTO is so concerned about its future that it has commissioned a special independent report to examine the possibilities and suggest reforms. However, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh find in their assessment that the report do es not provide a vision for the future, but rather a defence of the WTO's past and present, and proposals for more of the same as before. More

NATURAL CALAMITIES

Tsunami: Poverty, the epicentre of priorities
THE Asian tsunami has with all its catastrophic consequences pushed poverty at the centre of global concerns in 2005, giving a thrust to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, including halving of the ... More

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Lateral thinking on Budget 2005

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