The Hindu Business Line : Monday, June 06, 2005

Bankable outsourcing
AS A CONCEPT, outsourcing has taken firm roots in the financial services sector. Predictably, the Reserve Bank of India, as banking and financial services regulator, is concerned. A senior official of the RBI is on record saying that the central ... More

ECONOMY

KPO: To KISS and win in US
RECENTLY, we were invited by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce to make a presentation on `How to win BPO business in the US?' Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) — is still in its infancy and is not ... More

Industrial growth in China and India — The real story behind the numbers
It is easy to go overboard in our admiration of the Chinese experience. But a recent comparative study puts things in perspective by pointing out the flaws in China's industrial strategy and specifically highlighting the `waste' of resources implicit in its rapid industrialisation model. Each country has to progress according to its own inherent strengths, says S. Venkitaramanan, explaining that no country's model is completely replicable. More

ENVIRONMENT

EUROSCAPE
Germany's battle for a cleaner environment
AS I write, thousands of Germans are rinsing out their yoghurt pots before tossing them into their colour-coded waste-bins. Recycling is Germany's contribution to the global battle for the environment, and the ... More

FOREIGN TRADE

China and ASEAN: India's emerging markets
THERE HAS been a remarkable shift from west to east. Till last year the US was the sole power driving India's global trade. But no more, with the emergence of China and the Association of South-East Asian Nations ... More

POLITICS

Visitless year
RANKING officials and senior executives, working for government departments or public and private sectors, have a euphemistic technique of avoiding callers who seek an appointment or ring them up in pursuance of a public service. In keeping ... More

DISINVESTMENT

The politics of disinvestment
AS WITH any other policy initiative, disinvestment has also become a victim of politics in this country. How else would you explain the flip-flops in policy initiatives that have been witnessed the last few years? ... More

LETTERS

Fertiliser subsidies

Oil price hike

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