The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 09, 2006

Food for thought
AT FIRST GLANCE, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs' decision to hike the issue price of foodgrains and reduce the quantity available for the poor above the poverty line would appear to be a welcome example of rational governance; after ... More

AGRICULTURE

Needed a soil, not green, revolution
Agriculture can never be salvaged with a "trickle down" approach, which stands debunked now after four decades of the so-called Green Revolution. We need a revolution on the farm. More

ECONOMY

Reflections on turning points in the economy
POLICIES change and nations embark on new paths. It is often difficult to discern any pattern or design behind most of these occurrences, however hard we try. Recently, an economist engaged in policy research on India ... More

Unemployment, inflation and education
Undoubtedly by promoting unemployable education policy-makers have raised unemployment. Also, by not putting to more productive use much of the public money, they have added to inflation. If colleges are made to give economic relevance to education, that should address both unemployment and inflation, says P. V. Indiresan. More

MANAGEMENT

Listing the tools of management
I REMEMBER a popular textbook on Indian economics that I was required to study as an undergraduate. It was encyclopaedic, covered every topic imaginable, but very efficiently boiled everything down to lists. There were, ... More

EDUCATION

Central institutions and regional disparity
There is a need for educational institutes of national repute in backward States such as Orissa to bridge regional disparity and trigger local development. More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Corporate remuneration
ONE of the fuzzy areas of corporate governance is the fixing of norms and criteria for determining the remuneration of the chief executive and whole-time directors. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has ... More

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