The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 17, 2003

Generating interest
WITH ALL ATTENTION on distribution reforms the last couple of years, the need to raise electricity generation capacity substantially was being lost sight of. The Union Power Minister, Mr Anant Geete, was, therefore, quite right at the recent ... More

ECONOMY

Employment and poverty among India's neighbours
It is now recognised that poor employment generation has been a major casualty of the Indian neo-liberal economic reform process. However, less is known about India's neighbouring countries in South Asia, most of which also went in for similar reform s in the past two decades. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine the pattern of output and employment growth, and associated trends in poverty, in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. More

TAXATION

Tax rationalisation — Should India follow Mauritius?
It is time that countries such as India woke up to the reality instead of blindly kow-towing the powerful. Tax rationalisation is already being forced on India by its competitive neighbours, and it may be in the country's interest to follow Mauritius ' example. This path is not easy. More

TEXTILES

Textiles: Challenges of post-quota regime
The textile industry is truly at the crossroads. While the post-quota regime will open up new opportunities, there are also threats because of strong competition from China and a few other developing countries which have modernised their textile ind ustries over the last three years and become more cost-competitive than India. says S. D. Naik. More

MARKETING

Luxury for masses
THE aspirational theory of marketing proposes the formation of an "aspirational class" — a type of positioning that nurtures man's deep-rooted desire for luxury. Aspirational class is one that a given segment of the market desires to ... More

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