The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Farm credit package in the offing?
MR SUKHJIT Singh, who retired as Director, Agriculture, of the Punjab Government, is a leading agriculturist in the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur belt and is representative of a small but growing community of farmers who believe that the agricultural ... More

OUTSOURCING

Made in India
NOWADAYS, willy-nilly, be it the economist, the technologist, the social scientist or the political pundit, everyone has to be a China watcher. China has already won the race in manufacturing. No doubt, India is a front-runner in the services ... More

EDITORIAL

Dollar deluge
IT IS POURING good news about the Indian economy. After an 8 per cent GDP growth for the second quarter, just behind China's, comes the news that this country has had the biggest inflow of capital from its overseas workers. India received a ... More

ECONOMY

Challenge of measuring service sector growth
ON NOVEMBER 30, the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the quarterly estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for July-September (Q2) of 2005-06, both at constant (1993-94) ... More

BANKING

Towards financial inclusion
LAST week Mr V. Leeladhar, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, delivered the Fedbank Hormis Memorial Foundation commemorative lecture in Kochi on a subject that is receiving keen attention around the world, especially of bankers - ... More

RBI's Report on Currency and Finance 2004-05 — Banks must compete, consolidate and converge
The RBI Report on Currency and Finance 2004-05 highlights the challenges facing the banking sector, which requires infusion of new technologies, better processes of credit and risk appraisal, product diversification, robust internal controls and cor porate governance, and efficient human resource management. Competition, consolidation and convergence will be the key drivers of the sector in the years to come, says S. D. Naik. More

WTO

The `real face' of free trade
AS YOU read this, trade ministers from around the world are arriving to attend the Sixth Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Hong Kong. At the Convention Centre, overlooking the city's beautiful harbour, they aim to push ... More

INTERVIEW

`The US is not losing its competitiveness'
On terrorism and new approach to manufacturing: "The FDA wants to know, ``what's in them?'', ``who made them (right down to the worker who was on the line at that point of time)?'' and ``where did they come from ?" More

BRANDS

Some lessons in brand-building
IKEA is described as the quintessential global cult brand. Over 400 million people shop at its stores across the world every year year. Revenues are nearly $80 billion and growing at a brisk clip. It is a subject of case studies from Harvard and ... More

LETTERS

The EPF rate

Black pepper

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In Focus

Trends in IT - 2005

FDI in retail sector