OPINION
EDITORIAL
Rabi prospects
EVEN AS THE kharif harvest gathers momentum, it is clear that actual output of several crops — rice, coarse grain, pulses, and oilseeds — will not only fall considerably below the target but also short of the kharif 2003 output. Going ...
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ECONOMY
World Development Report — An agenda for peace and prosperity
AS ECONOMIC growth is the only sustainable way to raise a society's standard of living, the wherewithal to achieve this assumes overarching priority in any development strategy. Pertinently, this year's World ...
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Demography and P&P sector — Age bomb, a trigger for outsourcing
The aging population of the developed countries, coupled with a desire of the workers for fewer hours, is a ticking time-bomb. The Proprietorship and Partnership sector will be tremendously impacted in the coming decades because of the tectonic shift in the employment scenario. There is an urgent need for society to calibrate this explosion in the coming decades, says R. Vaidyanathan.
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ACCOUNTANCY
First law of business is to know the law right
IN mid-September, with only an hour to go before the AGM, Birla Corporation Ltd rushed to the Company Law Board (CLB) and asked if R. S. Lodha could chair the meeting. The CLB was unable to "understand the need for this ...
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Out of mind to be out of `site'
Mohan R. Lavi on the need for a better dissemination by SEBI of the Securities Appellate Tribunal decisions.
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No concept, only paper
K. Srinivasan on the fuss that the Concept Paper tries to churn up
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When boardrooms bode doom...
WHAT are the values and qualities that directors must possess? How to develop an environment in the boardroom to encourage scepticism and serious discussion? Is it possible for the CEO and the board to understand ...
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