The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Ill-prepared for bird-flu
INDIA ESCAPED SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) in 2003 and remains as yet unaffected by the avian-flu. Mercifully, because the country is barely prepared to meet such health emergencies. Across the world, governments are planning ... More

ECONOMY

Liquidity overhang — The financial reality
EVEN AS India is starving for investments, especially in infrastructure, education and heath-care, there is enormous liquidity overhang in the economy. Perhaps, there is a behavioural explanation for not only India's inability to invest, but ... More

Increasing public expenditure on education
The UPA Government has committed itself to increasing the share of public spending on education to 6 per cent of GDP. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh assess the implications of this in relation to the evident social needs. More

The Caribbean: Opportunities to be tapped
THE gravity model is often used to predict movement of people, information, and commodities between cities, countries and even continents. Since larger places attract people, ideas, and commodities and places closer together have a greater ... More

PETROLEUM

World Energy Outlook — A global high-tension act
As development triggers increasing demand for energy, the producing and using countries will have to do a balancing act so that economic growth remains unaffected. G. Srinivasan cites the just-released World Energy Outlook 2005 that the role of the Middle East and North Africa region will critical to meeting the global energy appetite. These countries have vast resources, but need investments to tap them. That is the key. More

MANAGEMENT

The art of unlearning
UNLEARNING is related to the conscious, deliberate and selective forgetting of any organisation's learning that may no longer be relevant in a changed context — what many management gurus call "excess baggage". This can be a system, one ... More

LETTERS

Recognition for poultry farming

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