The Hindu Business Line : Monday, December 05, 2005

When parents double as career managers
GIVE your son (or daughter) a fish and he lives for a day, teach him fishing and he lives for a life-time, buy him the best fishing gear, take him to the river, enrol him in the best coaching centre, encourage him ... More

EDITORIAL

Private sailing
DP WORLD, THE Dubai government-owned port company, has emerged the largest container terminal operator in India, following its recent takeover of the UK-based P&O. The West Asian major, now among the top three world-wide, will have controlling .. More

ECONOMY

Gentle persuaders
THE Indian Liberal Group, headed with great dedication by Mr S. V. Raju, deserves a big salute for holding aloft the values (freedom, fair play, tolerance, intellectual honesty, open mind, recourse to reasoned persuasion, receptivity to opposing ... More

Development, market and government
Experience suggests that rather than there being a conflict between governance and institutional accountability, the two should be complementary. More

MANAGEMENT

The knowing-acting gap
THE gap between what we know for certain and what we actually apply in practice is a source of enduring frustration for managers and consultants. Chris Argyris, an outstanding social scientist and intellectual at ... More

BANKING

Trend and Progress of Banking in India 2005-05 — Towards greater stability and growth
The RBI's latest Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India describes, with greater clarity than its previous editions, the achievements and weaknesses in the banking system. Ranging from non-food credit and parameters such as the credit-GDP ra tio, and agricultural lending, to the policy on NBFCs, the Report testifies to the significant advances made by the financial system in its twin objectives of stability and growth, says S. Venkitaramanan. More

WTO

WTO Ministerial: A nuanced discourse
IN THE Odyssey, Odysseus goes on a specialised kind of discourse almost every time he speaks, in which he sets out a pair of opposing possibilities for the situation at hand, and then selects the one which seems ... More

A tale of evolving WTO drafts
A comparison between the two drafts prior to the upcoming WTO ministerial meeting at Hong Kong helps to throw light on the pressures being exerted on the ministerial conference, thus yielding an important clue to the state of play of the conflicting forces grappling with each other to settle vital parameters of international trade for the next three or four years. More

LETTERS

A people's President

GSK Healthcare clarifies

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