The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, March 15, 2007

NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY
Bio-fuels: Future beckons, present stalls
In the Indian context, the key to the knotty problem of meeting the growing energy demands without jeopardising the food security of the masses lies in the starchy roots of tapioca. More

EDITORIAL
Manufacturing growth
Let down by capital goods, industry's robustness may be undermined by inflation. More

ACCOUNTANCY
The evolution of `management consultant'
Management guru Peter Drucker once confided, "My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions." That may not comfort most of us who invariably find management consultants to be an inscrutable class of people. But it ... More

Exchangeable bonds — for control and funds
An exchangeable bond, unlike a convertible bond, gives the subscriber the right to get shares in a company other than the issuer. More

Meetings are indispensable
The clown sings in Twelfth Night: `Journeys end in lovers meeting... ' Alas, company meetings are different journeys, which you can't wish away. For, "Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything," as John Kenneth ... More

EDUCATION
Education metropia
Many a concept taught in B-schools are not practised by the institutions themselves, rendering the system hypocritical. More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS
Pedro Malan Committee Report — Counselling the Bretton Woods twins
The Malan Committee, set up to evaluate the relationship between the IMF and the World Bank, wants the Fund to stay away from the Bank's turf and get rid of the one-size-fits-all approach to stabilisation or growth. It also calls for exchange of sta ff between the institutions. But the US, which has the veto right, is unlikely to go along with them, says K. SUBRAMANIAN. More

INTERVIEW
Creative accounting can thrive on gaps in M&A standards
In India, at present, there is no accounting standard corresponding to IFRS-3 dealing with acquisition of an entity as a subsidiary on day zero, leaving some significant issues un-addressed. MR PAUL ALVERAS, A SENIOR PROFESSIONAL IN A MEMBER FIRM OF ERNST & YOUNG GLOBAL. More

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