The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, March 21, 2007

COMMODITY EXCHANGES
PERSPECTIVE
Going rural with smart finance
In explaining how the financial capital of London will serve the wider interests of European farmers, the city's Lord Mayor noted: "In the new liberalising world, farmers need to be savvy enough to use market tools to weather downturns and ... More

EDITORIAL
The inverted anomaly
FTAs are worsening the incongruity of levies on finished goods falling more rapidly than those on raw materials. More

ECONOMY
The widening social divide
Police violence in Nandigram, and Naxalite killings in Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar. Why are we seeing so much social unrest and violence? Is the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, the urban and the rural, even as the economy rolls along at 9 per cent plus, taking the country to the brink? As citizens, is there nothing we can do to improve the quality of governance, asks RASHEEDA BHAGAT. More

POLITICS
Reaping the whirlwind
on the Left parties' trumpeting of the virtues of land reforms and the importance of owning land. More

The tragedy of top-down democracy
If Nandigram-like eruptions in our polity hold one supreme lesson, it is that rulers in a democracy cannot afford to ensconce themselves cosily in their own comfortable ivory towers and hand down decisions on ... More

INTERVIEW
Labour law reforms can benefit workers too
We do not want sacrifices from labour because that is still the bottom end of society. If labour laws are liberalised the right way, the workers will benefit. More

The two `w's and two `h's of retail
"Planning is the key to retail. `What' is determined by the customer profile, `how much' by the planned turnover, `how many' by the capacity available and `when' by commercial considerations and the product life-cycle." More

LETTERS

North-East development

Panic in wheat

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