The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, August 25, 2005

An onerous job
THE RECENT CHANGES notwithstanding, the law guaranteeing employment to the rural masses must still be viewed as falling short of expectations. For now, the prospect of a government- guaranteed rural job is going to be restricted to only those ... More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

Valuation to end warring
Mohan R. Lavi on a case where a company director was removed without due notice More

ECONOMY

Yuan revaluation — No big advantage for India
India may not really benefit from the yuan revaluation. This is because of its poor competitiveness in the international market, domestic policy constraints, and limited overlapping of export products with China. New Delhi must address such issues as the inflexible labour laws, high cost of business infrastructure, inefficient logistics and, of course, corruption. More

ACCOUNTANCY

Accounting's key role in human history is of creating institutionalised memory
IN CHAPTER XX, titled `Of the tradesman's keeping his books, and casting up his shop', of The Complete English Tradesman, Daniel Defoe writes about a tradesman who could not write, but could still manage `with so many ingenious knacks of ... More

Bittersweet fruits of incorporation
Corporatisation has mixed results, says S. Murlidharan More

POLITICS

The drama and trauma of Gaza
A great media circus is being played out in Gaza as the Israeli army evicts Jewish settlers to return the strip of land to the Palestinians, who were dispossessed in 1967. Is this going to satisfy the Palestinians, who think this is too little too la te, while Israel thinks it has already done too much? Tracing the current developments and the history, Rasheeda Bhagat wonders what lies ahead. More

MANAGEMENT

Surviving change
IF THERE is one thing there can be no doubt about, it is that in recent times the world has been subject to constant and considerable change. Organisations that operate successfully today may fail tomorrow. The history of an organisation has no ... More

BOOKS

Managers have to resolve the ethical debate and take decisions
TAPPING into the `the world's second largest collection of decision-oriented, field-based business cases' of Ivey Business School, here's David J. Sharp's Cases in Business Ethics, from Sage (www.sagepublications.com). "A ... More

LETTERS

Mumbai's makeover

Cow dung as fuel

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