COLUMNS
OFFHAND
Ministry for ZPG
India's policy-makers are continuing to exhibit a dangerous sense of complacency in respect of population explosion. This is going to dash to the ground all hopes of India making it to the big league any time ...
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WIDE CANVAS
WTO shackles on national policy
Ever since the WTO came into being in 1994, it has been bandied around, making a lot of sense especially to those who feel that the organisation is just another instrument through which the developed world is controlling the economic resources of th e developing economies. For the sake of a liberalised international trading regime, the policy options for developing economies have been reduced.
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A RINGSIDE VIEW
FIIs return, likely to continue selective investments
Net investment higher by 1,300 crore; hedge funds too make a comeback
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MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
MF scheme for educational needs
Tata Mutual Fund files offer document for a close ended fund
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VISION 2020
Controlling growth of disparity
In an FAQ on curbing variance, rich-poor, urban-rural, P. V. INDIRESAN suggests certain rule-based controls instead of the current ad hoc solutions that are neither transparent nor have in-built checks and balances.
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RANDOM WALK
Kerala's fiscal crisis
Whichever way one looks at it, Kerala's fiscal crisis is palpably acute and it will take more than a clever Finance Minister to steer the State through the coming storm.
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CHAT
The mid-cap juggernaut continues to roll
Jogin was turning the pages of banking history to know more about moratoria. Sridevi was studying the ads of Hyundai and Maruti. Dakshinamoorthy was trying to plot on a graph sheet, world growth rate and the country's fiscal deficit... Till ...
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JOTTINGS
Retaining customers and employees
The fields of HR and marketing are closer than we think, and the strategies followed also have amazing parallels. In marketing, the biggest concern is with attracting and retaining profitable customers. In people management, it is exactly the ...
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AMERICAN PERISCOPE
The language of economic change
There is a shift in how the media, Indian and foreign, perceives India. But some are caught in a time warp, blaming the licence-control raj of the past. They must be reminded how the government's planning process helped build an industrial base and a degree of entrepreneurship that prepared everyone for the liberation when it came. The government needs to be engaged, led, and shown a better way of achieving the same objectives, and not just criticised, and called names.
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