The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, January 30, 2007

ECONOMY
Industry — a capital performance
The country's Gross Domestic Product has been 8 per cent-plus in 2006-07. At this rate, India should even by 2010 emerge among the world's top growing economies. This has been made possible by the structural transformation of industries. ... More

FOREIGN TRADE
Generalised System of Preferences — Carrots are not forever
Far from being general or systematic, the GSP has remained unilateral, non-reciprocal and discretionary. More

WTO
Making RTAs transparent
The new transparency mechanism in the WTO would help present comprehensive information on RTAs to all members. This may not straighten out the `spaghetti bowl' but would definitely help unravel its mysteries. More

BOOKS
CFO is `the co-pilot of the CEO'
The pressures are many for the Chief Financial Officer, especially in the areas of cost, regulation, governance, and information, says Cedric Read in Creating Value in a Regulated World. And as difficult was the life of the economist whom the technol ogist and the executive of an organisation saw as a doomsayer, till they saw reason in his language and logic, narrate Shlomo Maital and D. V. R. Seshadri in Innovation Management. Many an innovation has come from intuition and, Arupa Tesolin says in Ting, that it is better heeded. More

LETTERS

Rationalisation of demat tariffs

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