COLUMNS
FINANCIAL SCAN
The myth of emerging market risk
Something like this is happening in India's forex balance sheet. Foreigners are getting 30 per cent on their investments while we are content with 5 per cent on US Treasury bills and bonds. India's stock market is in an extraordinary boom as ...
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ACCOUNT SPEAK
Governor-speak can add fizz to `considerable fuzziness'
The RBI's Credit Policy Statement has many an example of linguistic acrobatics though the Governor declares that `the importance of communication has received significant emphasis in the recent period' and that `the RBI has been reaching out to encom pass the widest sections of society through the spread of financial education.' The RBI's Credit Policy Statement has many an example of linguistic acrobatics
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IMPRESSIONS
Climate change and India
India's planners find themselves in a fix in the wake of the fourth assessment report of the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change. On the one hand, the economy is growing at a robust 9 per cent and has ...
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BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
Inflows can turn out to be outflows
Many developing countries actively woo foreign investment into domestic enterprises. A serious risk, though, is that unfettered inflows can turn out to be outflows, as Kavaljit Singh cautions in Why Investment Matters, from the Forests and ...
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INDIA UNINC
Should India be filling West's demographic gap?
Facing a severe demographic deficit, the Western countries may offer various incentives to the youth from countries such as India that have a vast, young population. If this trend is to be reversed, India must ensure better living conditions for its Generation Next through high quality infrastructure, especially education and health-care, and a corruption-free administration, says R. VAIDYANATHAN.
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