The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, April 26, 2007

EDITORIAL
Battle of the forex bulge
The RBI invites coporates and individuals to join it in solving the problem of growing foreign exchange reserves. More

ENVIRONMENT
Friends of the Trees
This column is about trees in Kolkata because that is where the writer lives. But his views on the city's greenery can probably be applied to other cities as well because the basic issue is perhaps commonly applicable to all places — that ... More

FOREX
Harnessing the forex wealth
The latest Monetary Policy has taken the first steps to use the foreign exchange riches and these moves will further globalise the Indian economy and speed up its integration into the global market. More

CREDIT POLICY
Hawkish talk, dovish walk
A real hawkish policy would constitute moving to a gold standard for the currency besides allowing the markets to determine money supply and interest rates. But for the RBI's economists in the Keynesian mould that would be a near-180 degree shift fro m their intellectual leanings. The latest Monetary Policy is anything but hawkish, and given its highly inflationary implications, a year from now, the CRR, interest rates and the inflation could all be higher, says SHANMUGANATHAN N. More

INTERVIEW
Valuations need to be transparent, reliable and fair
Valuation of intangible and other corporate assets has become a multi-disciplinary academic and professional stream. More

Financial statements have become unintelligible to lay readers
Three out of four CFOs (chief financial officers) say that companies should send to shareholders soft copies of financial statements, rather than the printed booklets. Almost one in two CFOs `strongly recommend' industry specific accounting ... More

LETTERS

Growth impetus lacking

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