OPINION
EMPLOYMENT
Wages of unemployment
More than failing the farmers, the NDA fell because unemployment became excessive. But tackling rural and urban joblessness requires a broad-spectrum approach that goes beyond ideological purity. Needed are less simplistic and more comprehensive solu tions to engineer both economic growth and full employment simultaneously, says P. V. Indiresan.
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EDITORIAL
Re-laying credit lines to farms
NEGLECT OVER 15-20 years has run the rural credit delivery system to seed, going by the Report of the Advisory Committee on Flow of Credit to Agriculture. For bankers, in the Reserve Bank of India and outside, re-laying lines of rural credit to ...
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ECONOMY
Beijing: In and outside the sixth ring road
THERE ARE several ring roads around Beijing. My travel guidebook, published in 2002, tells me that plans for a fifth ring road exist on paper but construction is yet to begin. Early this month, as I travelled east on ...
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Return of the reformers
THE reformers are back in power. The original reformers are back in place of the erstwhile converts, who apparently had taken their new religion too seriously and believed, wrongly though, that it was they who had ...
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FERTILISERS
Gas price: De-regulation brooks no delay
The removal of price and distribution controls on domestic natural gas brooks no further delay if the suppliers of gas — both domestic and imported — are to get an impetus to augment supplies to the level of projected demand and help achi eve full energy security.
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POLITICS
The price of political profligacy and nepotism
WE have a new Government at the Centre and our Ministers are busy getting garlanded and felicitated, and generally warming up to their portfolios. On taking charge of their departments, they can choose between the usual two approaches to work. ...
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SHIPPING
Sagarmala Project: Kochi port charts major plans
THE Kochi port is taking initiatives under the Sagarmala Project to emerge as "a global hub port of India" offering single-window services for diverse requirements of the maritime trade. The port stands to benefit ...
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EDUCATION
B-school blues
ONCE again B-schools are in the news. The agonising over them never seems to end. It is easy to divine why this should be so. B-schools are fair game simply because, like Everest, they are there! I have a bit of a ...
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LETTERS
Wiping out poverty
Common minimum programme
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