The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, September 07, 2006

ECONOMY
A template approach to Eleventh Plan?
The Planning Commission has approached the Eleventh Plan with `mundane templating', ignoring the issues on the ground. India deserves something bigger, better and fresh. More

ACCOUNTANCY
`There's a premium that foreign companies need to pay for their India footprint'
"More than half the deals consummated globally do not create shareholder value, although this trend is improving." MR ROHIT KAPUR, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, KPMG INDIA PRIVATE LTD More

Healthcare: The price of well-being
The current political economy of healthcare makes India one of the most privatised health sectors in the world. Out-of-pocket expenditure of the citizens is the main mechanism of financing healthcare. More

A job half done
What the rating agencies are doing now is only half the job. The job left unfinished is that of appraising the price of an IPO — it is not enough to appraise the company alone. More

Write to win
Accountants and lawyers often compete in the same professional space. One example is appellate work. To help, here is the second edition of The Winning Brief, by Bryan A. Garner, with `100 tips for persuasive briefing in trial and ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE
Land for SEZs — Government as real-estate broker
Even granting, as the Commerce Ministry claims, that new Special Economic Zones will draw investment of Rs 1,00,000 crore over the next three years, with huge employment potential, there are several grey areas in the way land is acquired for these Zo nes. Moreover, the tax-break policy for export-led growth could accelerate inter-regional differences and create islands of fiscal extravagance, points out R. VAIDYANATHAN. More

SOCIETY & DEVELOPMENT
Urban lament
Nowadays I dread meeting people my own age in Chennai. Not because we exchange a litany of woes about our aches and pains of osteoporosis or our sacrifice of pickles and papadams. In fact, we have learnt to ... More

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