The Hindu Business Line : Monday, August 27, 2007

EDITORIAL
Wages of freedom
Making PSU managers accountable to professional boards rather than departmental masters is the first place to start salary reforms. More

ENVIRONMENT
Waste management — A question of mind over matter
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STATES
IMF pats States on the back
The weakest link in the chain of India’s fiscal management has been the State governments. The six years from 1997–98 to 2002–03 have been described as the worst in the history of State finances. Unlike in the case of the ... More

MANAGEMENT
The well-read manager
I had offered some thoughts elsewhere in this newspaper last week on the fundamentals of writing of the kind managers deal with everyday. A keen teacher-friend asked me if I had anything similar to say on the reading habit, since managers in ... More

HOUSING FINANCE
Learnings from the financial crisis
Let not the experience of the sub-prime crisis lead the RBI to put blocks in the way of adequate credit growth in the Indian economy, provided it is for the right purposes, properly supervised and monitored. The role of the RBI has to be to nurture g rowth as well as stability. That is the abiding lesson that one takes away from the sub-prime crisis, says S. VENKITARAMANAN. More

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS
Unions among knowledge workers — Five routes open to organisations
The coming days will require leaders to push the agenda of cost, efficiency, productivity and all other aspects of performance much harder. More

ECONOMIC OFFENCES
An issue of leadership
The latest report of Transparency International has declared — based on its own statistical findings — that India is not among the “truly corrupt” nations of the world, the country taking that unenviable top slot being ... More

LETTERS

Optimising routes

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