The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, October 25, 2006

FOREIGN RELATIONS
The quagmire in Iraq
While the US and the UK play an increasingly difficult balancing act in a violent Iraq, more and more voices in the two "great democracies" are speaking out against their countries' presence as occupiers of that country. As for the Iraqis themselves, their sense of despair and hopelessness is now total. More

EDITORIAL
Rural refrain
What needs to be done for agriculture is well known, but the political will to effect radical change is clearly lacking. More

ECONOMY
Inflation and interest rate tidings still good
While the price rise of some basic necessities may be aggravated by the runaway expansion in money supply, the rise in interest rates has had some impact on demand, though this has to be checked against data from the RBI's Mid-Term Review to be out o n October 31. Should the central bank tackle inflation by tinkering with rates? A. SESHAN thinks it should stay its hand for now. More

FERTILISERS
Fertiliser reforms brook no delay
Deregulation can open up the floodgates of foreign investment in the fertiliser sector. This can turn India from a deficit country to a hub for exporting fertilisers. More

MANAGEMENT
Aspects and varieties of leadership
One cannot insist that leadership traits are only inborn: They can be acquired by study, training, emulation and by a process of self-development. More

ECONOMICS
The Golden Rules of Edmund S. Phelps
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has posted on www.nobelprize.org a four-page document, as `information for public' about `the Prize in Economic Sciences 2006'. The winner, as you know, is Edmund S. Phelps. "In one of his first ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
The Kaizen advantage
Changing an organisation's culture is no mean task. When people get used to certain ways of working, it is not easy to get them to change. Yet, it is imperative that any organisation creates what may be called ... More

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