The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 08, 2007

EDUCATION
Merit in the classroom
The issue of quota in educational institutions has been under discussion for more than a year now. At this stage of consolidation of education policy, the issue needs to be addressed quickly. The policy should strive to raise educational ... More

FOODGRAINS
Has food become an astra?
Almost four decades ago, the then US President, Richard Nixon, said that food is a weapon and must be used as such. He was ready to write-off India as a "basket case" because of the Public Loan (PL 480) situation; India was literally living ... More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY
Farm policy must plough a new furrow
To achieve the goal of 4 per cent agricultural growth, the farm focus must turn to dryland agriculture, wasteland development, horticulture, organic farming and warehousing. While on one hand, the policymakers are sanguine about the immense opp ortunities, on the other, they lament the constraints faced. There is a need for an integrated and holistic approach with regulatory reforms. More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Justified additions
According to recent media reports (see, for instance, the Hindu of April 29), the Foreign Secretary informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs that the Government was considering ... More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS
World Bank's problem Paul
When Mr Paul Wolfowitz was appointed President of the World Bank, developing countries were dismayed . Once he took over the functioning of the Bank, the staff described the atmosphere as "at a funeral." Mr Moises Naim, editor of ... More

BOOKS
Tales from economic hit men
The game of Economic Hit Men has just got more complex, the corruption more pervasive, but their operations more fundamental to the world economy and politics, says John Perkins who returns with his EHM in `A Game As Old As Empire'. Third World count ries are caught in a web of control — financial, political, and military — that is extremely hard for them to escape, rues the book narrating many deeply disturbing stories of greed and international corruption. More

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