The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, August 29, 2006

CHILDREN & PARENTING
PERSPECTIVE
Child Budgeting
India can be rightly proud of the tremendous progress it has achieved over the last decade, particularly in terms of its remarkable economic growth and increasing global political influence. Yet, it is wanting in an area closest to people's ... More

EDITORIAL
Return of controls
Bringing back the negative prescription of a cap on wheat and pulses inventory is candid admission of a market out of government control. More

ECONOMY
On growth, poverty and opportunity
"While India's growth performance has improved there are concerns about whether this is doing enough for the poor and excluded groups. For, a basic and long-standing concern pertains to whether the growth strategy has bypassed the poor and if the t raditionally poor and the weaker sections are getting equal opportunity?" — MR MONTEK SINGH AHLUWALIA, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, PLANNING COMMISSION More

FOREIGN TRADE
Re-defining Indo-Dutch economic ties
The Netherlands may have been slow to wake up to India's economic resurgence, but it is making up by quickly "redefining" the trade and investment relations. More

BEVERAGES
Specialists as brand ambassadors
A harried cola company is reported to be toying with the idea of engaging a scientist as its brand ambassador so as to carry credibility with its customers both actual and potential and more particularly to ... More

BANKING
Institutionalising money-lending?
Registering money-lenders to give cheaper loans to farmers is not going to solve farmers' problems. The solution has to be found from within the banking framework, by making it provide credit to landless labourers, marginal farmers and women entrepre neurs. More

FINANCIAL POLICY
Chidambaram is right and wrong
The Finance Minister's letter asking banks to consider keeping any hike in PLR in abeyance may have created much consternation, but he did this in a transparent fashion, which deserves credit. But his utterances on bank mergers may be a different ket tle of fish. More

COMMODITY MARKETS
Commodity futures — A spot of teething trouble
The ills of the commodity futures are merely teething troubles that will vanish as a larger share of the physical trade is pulled in and the market matures. More

LETTERS

Flood impact

Oilseeds supply

PF arrears

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