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EDITORIAL


Parody of a panacea
The spin-offs are questionable from the islands of privilege that the special zones are. More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS


Sweeping clauses
Bureaucratic red tape has interesting fallouts. While the government-owned BSNL is floating mega tenders for procuring telecom equipment worth $5 billion, the Department of Telecom has invited bids from kabadiwallahs to dispose its ... More

ECONOMY


REPORTER'S DIARY
Chinese reticence
Indians have much to learn from the Chinese on how to keep things to oneself. During the recent visit of an Indian business delegation to that country, members tried hard to find out how China had managed to shift polluting industries from major ... More

FOREIGN TRADE


Do as Romans do
When in Rome do as Romans do is sage advice. For example, if you want to get business in the US, you have to hardsell your expertise to the prospective customer. If the customer is impressed, you will get a small job, with the assurance that if ... More

FOREX


Is CAC need of the hour?
Full convertibility, on the face of it, may look like a good concept but is the real picture as rosy? More

POLITICS


TAMIL NADU ASSEMBLY ELECTION
The war of the freebies
The battle for Tamil Nadu is being fought with rice and TV sets, as the Kazhagams go on a dole overdrive. Here, a quick measure of the people's pulse, especially vis-à-vis the Vaiko factor and the caste issues. In Tamil Nadu, so mixed is the pict ure, so conflicting the signals and so confusing the trend that it will be a brave heart who will venture a guess on the outcome. More

Living with quotas
The debate on the Government's proposal to increase the quotas in professional institutions such as medical and engineering colleges and the IITs and IIMs and on applying the policy of reservations to the ... More

TAXATION


How near is India to its taxable capacity?
While direct tax collections are on the rise, the contribution of indirect taxes as a percentage of GDP has stagnated the past four years. The kind of emphasis placed on the revamp of the direct tax administration is needed for indirect taxes too, s ays T. C. A. RAMANUJAM, adding that the tax administration seems to be missing the wood for the trees. More

CREDIT POLICY


The RBI prescription for growth, stability
The stance of Monetary Policy is to enable the continuation of the growth momentum consistent with price stability. More

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT


Blending socialist ideals with market imperatives
China concedes that FDI has had the most favourable impact on the development of its economy in the opening up process. More

WTO


India everywhere
The CII may have coined the "India Everywhere'' slogan for the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos this January, but a colleague found out that India was `everywhere' much before that. On a visit to China, the colleague was surprised to hear ... More

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