Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Friday, April 19, 2002
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OPINION EDITORIAL Easing takeover THE P.N. BHAGWATI panel's proposals on changes to the SEBI's Takeover Code are welcome reform. Especially the proposal making an `open offer' mandatory where a preferential offer of shares has been made to any class of investor in excess of 15 ... More ENVIRONMENT 
Environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness -- The Porter hypothesisIN A 1991 article published in Scientific American, Mr Michael Porter, the Harvard guru of `competitive advantage' fame, said: "Strict environmental regulations do not inevitably hinder competitive advantage against foreign rivals; indeed, ... More STEEL US' rusty steel policy IT IS generally assumed that in the US, the Republicans are free-trade votaries and the Democrats, protectionists. This is not factually right though. There are times when Republicans turn protectionists and Democrats espouse free trade; trade ... More TAXATION 
Delaying VAT is no taxing issueTHE decision to defer the introduction of value-added tax (VAT) is no longer news. Though many reasons have been cited, including the unfortunate December 13 attack on Parliament and the events that followed, the various issues connected to ... More MANAGEMENT McLuhan's laws and new-age management A LOT is being said about the paradigms of management in the new era, the sweeping changes technology will bring about in management practices, the policy changes expected. But are these changes unique only to this era? Management in the new era ... More INTEREST RATES Interest rate adharma The Finance Ministry should review the situation and point out to banks that it is adharma to raise the lending rate if the deposit rate goes up, in view of the benefits derived from the changes in CRR. More SPORTS Cricketing ferraris THE Indian cricket team fascinates me. It is like an Ambassador car with parts that just do not work together. The gears do not mesh, pistons misfire, tyres blow, horns do not work; it breaks down frequently and is constantly taken back to the ... More ECONOMIC OFFENCES Dangerous drift IT was hitherto assumed as an immutable axiom that the organised services constituting especially the permanent bureaucracy and the police were the only sure and firm prop that people have in a parliamentary system of democracy for safely ... More LETTERS Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
Top Stories In Depth Inside Kashmir Guide to derivatives US-64 Looking back Apr. 7-Apr. 13 Move to decentralise food procurement -- Third revolution on farm front? FDI: Hi China, excuse me India |
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