The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, January 27, 2004

EDITORIAL
BPO crackdown?
IT IS A little difficult to gauge the impact the US Senate's decision to ban outsourcing of government contracts to offshore locations will have on the business opportunities flowing into India. For, the restriction applies only to those jobs ... More

FERTILISERS
Urea prices: Why import parity makes better sense
In this reform era, when the thrust is on encouraging units that are globally competitive, the New Pricing Policy acts as a strong disincentive to the gas-based urea plants while allowing several high-cost naphtha and fuel oil-based plants to continu e in production. There is an urgent need for the Government to replace the existing group concession scheme with a system linking the realisation of all manufacturers to the import parity price of urea, says Uttam Gupta. More

HEALTH
Unhealthy silence
THE spate of sops for every section of the voting public by the Government only confirms the famous quote of H. L. Mencken that "every election is a bout of advance auction of stolen goods." However, people, as they ... More

MANAGEMENT
Intelligence and the corporation
BUSINESS corporations are living beings. They exhibit intelligent behaviour — or at least are supposed to. After a futile search for a theory of intelligence of the corporation with convincing first principles, I decided to evolve one ... More

BIO-TECH & GENETICS
The fractal-print of biotechnology
IT HAS been said that biotechnology is the hope for the future — the great equaliser that will abolish the North-South divide and solve the most difficult problems in health-care, food security and sustainable ... More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Are companies like governments?
MANY would tend to dismiss the financial collapse of Parmalat, Italy's iconic food and dairy company, as nothing more than another financial and accounting scandal. Yet, there may be other dimensions to the debacle that ... More

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Globalisation watch

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