The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 28, 2005

CHOGM or hokum?
CHOGM is taken to stand for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting such as the one currently taking place at Malta. But in Australia where I attended the meeting at Melbourne in 1980 as a member of the Indian delegation led by the then Prime ... More

EDITORIAL

Laboured worries
THE CONCERNS raised by the International Labour Organisation about workspace health conditions in the IT services and business process outsourcing sector come as a surprise. The employees in the IT/BPO services in the country have been a ... More

ECONOMY

Creating a Japan that can say `Yes'
MOST public places in Japan will have a board loudly proclaiming `Information' in English. However, everything else on it will be in Japanese. This can well symbolise, at least for an outsider, the duality one ... More

Economy will make Russia fight for immigrants
RUSSIA will not be able to develop the vast expanses of Siberia and the Far East without immigrant workforce. Even the optimistic UN forecast predicts the Russian population will drop to 138 million by 2025. Without ... More

Remittances and their role in global economy
THE document issued by the World Bank in September on Global Economic Prospects is significant for its emphasis on the implications of remittances and migration. Global remittances, which have doubled in the ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

Breaking the city-planning myths
Lack of urban space, high population densities, rising land costs, and poor facilities outside cities... These are arguments that will not wash. What Indian cities lack is proper urban planning and, to address this, both the city administration and the business sector must be co-opted, says P. V. Indiresan. More

MANAGEMENT

Accordion movements
MANAGEMENT practices move up and down like hemlines, following some curious internal logic. Trends in organisational size and structure swing out into greater diversity and complexity and are pulled back in, like ... More

WTO

WTO: Hong Kong meet's fate sealed?
Those working against the interests of the World Trade Organisation will do everything to scuttle the Hong Kong conference, because this would mean hitting at the Doha Round, which in turn would be tantamount to staging an assault on the long-term re levance of the WTO itself. More

LETTERS

A better Bihar

Committed governance

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