The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 14, 2006

EDITORIAL
Sugar export impasse
The least the Government can do is to permit mills to fulfil their sugar export obligations, so that they are relieved of their contractual duty. More

ECONOMY
Pay by cash please!
If India wants to march ahead towards becoming a developed nation, it will have to get out of the `cash please' mentality sooner than later. And it is time generous incentives were given to encourage the use of cards instead of cash. More

LABOUR REFORMS
Employment growth: The latest trends
The results of the latest large sample survey, the 61st Round of the NSSO, on employment and unemployment have just been released. They suggest that there have been significant changes in the pattern of employment over the past five years. In the fir st of a set of articles, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh consider the broad employment trends in urban and rural India. Subsequent editions of Macroscan will deal with the conditions of employment, average wages, unemployme nt and specific issues relating to employment among the young population. More

BOOKS
Reporting oil reserves is a political act
The potential rewards for the savvy energy investor are huge even as an überspike in oil prices looms large, assures George Orwel in Black Gold. Matthew R. Simmons takes a grimmer view in Twilight in the Desert, in which he talks about `the coming Sa udi oil shock.' And Brahma Chellaney maps the geopolitics of energy in Asian Juggernaut. More

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Looking back
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