The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, December 26, 2006

URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Three pillars of sustainable urbanisation
The three pillars for sustainable urban development are improving the enabling environments, the framework of institutions, policies, incentive structures, and reporting requirements for urban governance; ensuring that decentralisation and devolution are made to work; and continuing programmes of technical assistance and training for improving urban governance and management. More

EDITORIAL
PSU viability
More than finance, growth of public sector units depends on corporate governance and accountability. More

ECONOMY
Re-crafting the Indian economy
Business jargon such as product diversification, and market dynamics will not help handicraft tradition to survive. Actually, the USP of handicraft sector is the artisans' age-old skill and artistry. More

POLITICS
Humour in House
Humour in Parliament has become a rarity today. One reason is the kind of competitive politics played out on its hallowed floors.No doubt, journalists on the beat must have their antenna in the right direction ... More

STOCK MARKETS
The vice-grip of finance
The stock market in Thailand collapsed after the government introduced limited market-based capital controls aimed at stalling the rapid appreciation of the Thai baht. The collapse forced a retreat on the capital controls front, raising questions abo ut policy sovereignty in developing countries that have opened their financial markets to flows of portfolio capital, argue C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh. More

INTERVIEW
`India has to get stronger with Japan at the political level'
"The new Japan is going to be politically more active in the Asian region as opposed to the last 20 years when it played a passive role... Japanese politics drives Japanese business even more than for example Indian politics driving Indian business." — MR R. SESHASAYEE, PRESIDENT, CII More

LETTERS

Piped natural gas

Rehabilitation of farmers

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