The Hindu Business Line : Monday, February 06, 2006

Too little, too late
IT IS JUST as well that the Government has given up its ostrich-like attitude in deciding at last, to allow the import of five lakh tonnes of wheat to augment domestic supplies and contain rising prices. The fragile demand-supply fundamentals and ... More

ECONOMY

The need to look beyond GDP
The point is not the replacement of GDP growth rate by the growth rate of educated rural population but to question age-old shibboleths, and look for alternatives. That kind of questioning, and the tolerance of such questioning are the basic tools of progress. Will the rules of the Finance Ministry encourage such questioning of hoary ideas, asks P. V. Indiresan. More

ENVIRONMENT

Brazil: The challenge of ecological resource use
Brazil's rainforest is considered the earth's most biologically diverse ecosystem. Unfortunately, about 16 per cent of this forest has been denuded in just the last four decades. More

POLITICS

Left in the lurch
THE Left parties can no longer put off devoting a couple of days in a quiet retreat to intense introspection, reviewing the effect of developments in India and abroad on their movement. In particular, they need to ponder, with searing ... More

MANAGEMENT

Management knowledge: Global or local?
THE debate within Indian management about the alleged conflict between Western concept and Indian practice has survived two generations and evokes strong positions. The point at issue is whether theories primarily ... More

WTO

Back to the WTO Doha Round
The good thing about the Davos meeting is that it has straightaway injected a sense of urgency into the negotiating process. A detailed, though informal, timetable is being circulated of what has to be accomplished and by when. More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS

End of an era at the US Fed
MR Alan Greenspan held his last Open Markets Committee meeting on Tuesday, January 31 2006, before he laid down office as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank. It was the end of a glorious 18-year tenure that ... More

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VAT concerns

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