The Hindu Business Line : Friday, July 03, 2009

OPINION

ECONOMIC SURVEY: Survey ‘janaaha sukhino bhavantu’?
Every government economist has a dream, that one day he or she will be able to supervise and write the Economic Survey. The job goes with the turf if you are the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA).Over the years India has had some excellent ...

ECONOMY: Empowering the rural poor
Poverty reduction — and its eventual elimination — has been one of the major goals of development policy in India since Independence. Several poverty alleviation programmes have been in place for a long time now. There are ...

ECONOMY: Big bang reforms are the key to India’s recovery
With the Indian economy slowing down sharply from the second half of the last financial year, speculation is on as to when India will recover from the impact of the global crisis. One view is that recovery is imminent irrespective of ...

EDITORIAL: Optimistic Survey
Much of the diagnosis in the Economic Survey presented by the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, in Parliament on Thursday sounds familiar. There are a few surprises and traces of inconsistency, but they do not blunt a keen optimism that ...

PETROLEUM: Unravelling ‘under-recoveries’
Is the increase in petrol and diesel prices announced on Wednesday a precursor to a full deregulation of the oil industry? It does appear so if the move is seen in conjunction with the statement in the Economic Survey tabled ...

ECONOMY: Can BRIC play the leading role?
The emergence of developing economy powerhouses has always been a matter of concern for the existing economic hegemonies. The ‘realist’ conception of hegemonic transition builds on the relative economic standings of ...

FINANCIAL SERVICES: Chennai — future financial hub?
The Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Mr M. K. Stalin, is apparently thinking big for Chennai. This is no news to those who, like myself, have watched him over the years and been impressed by his quiet but result-oriented style ...

LETTERS: Monetary Policy at the crossroads
This refers to the article “Monetary policy at the crossroads” (Business Line, July ...

LETTERS: Fuel price hike
This refers to the report “Petrol price raised by Rs 4 and diesel Rs 2; cooking fuels spared” (Business Line, July ...

Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh • S Venkitaramanan

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