The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Round and round
ALL INDICATIONS POINT to a bleak outlook for the ongoing Doha Round of multilateral negotiations. The strongest confirmation of this came at the Davos World Economic Forum where the World Trade Organisation Director-General, Mr Supachai ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Telecom: Beyond the FDI cap hike
With the latest sectoral cap of FDI hike, though laced with riders, only foreign equity firms with deep pockets may want to bet on domestic telecom companies, to rake in moolah by trading in telecom sector scrips. If the intention behind the hike in FDI cap in telecom is to quickly expand the network and keep prices down, one way to do so is by fostering competition. More

ECONOMY

World economy: From uni-polar to tri-polar
By around 2025, China's impact on world growth is likely to be larger than that of the US and India's greater that of Japan. By 2035, India is likely to be a larger growth driver than the six largest countries in the EU, though its impact will be a l ittle over half that of the US. China's impact will, however, be about 40 per cent more than that of the US. It will be a tri-polar world, says Arvind Virmani. More

China's growth enigma
As is true currently, China's truly remarkable pace of growth for over two decades has been punctuated with concern about bouts of deflation or overheating. Macroeconomic management in China appears to have more to do with dealing with these cycles around a relatively high trend rate of growth, rather than with realising and/or sustaining that trend itself. C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine this unusual nature of long-term growth trends in China. More

POLITICS

Where is India's democracy dividend?
"These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice." ... More

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