The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 11, 2009

OPINION

POLITICS: Post-poll fight: Who governs best?
In the ongoing elections, governance is an issue that has been deliberately neglected by the candidates. Governance can be assumed to have three features: integrity or absence of corruption; efficiency or absence of waste; and efficacy which may ...

POLITICS: The other CBI
A senior colleague has just found out the difference between a public sector and a private sector bank. What the former regards as a “large” withdrawal requiring 40 minutes and much form filling, foot-shuffling and bureaucracy is a ...

FINANCIAL POLICY: A call fit to be ignored
The demand of the Confederation of Indian Industry that the government should meet the fiscal deficit not entirely through market borrowings, but also by printing currency notes, is one that is fit to be ignored. The call for monetising the ...

EDITORIAL: Getting the priorities right
The RBI Governor, Dr D. Subbarao, has generally been fulsome in his praise of his predecessor Dr Y. V. Reddy as a policymaker who did not compromise on the dangers of price instability that an overheated economy could have generated. Releasing ...

POLITICS: End of the voting marathon
The hustle-bustle of the campaign for the general election to the 15th Lok Sabha will come to an end on May 12, marking the final phase of the voting marathon that held the country in thrall for close to two months. Political parties and ...

ECONOMY: WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2009: Taking a leaf out of Third World regulation?
The World Economic Outlook 2009 is set in the context of attempts by various countries to mitigate the effects of the recession. The Outlook is, as usual, very competently prepared and reflects the ...

CORPORATE: US: Stakeholders rush to protect their interests
Stakeholder is one of those warm and fuzzy terms. It softens the image of the stockholder who has been made to sound like a rapacious capitalist looking for high returns while squeezing labour. A stakeholder, on the other hand, defines a ...

LETTERS: GM crops in India
This refers to “NGOs in Agriculture” (Business Line, May 6). India is rich in biodiversity and the germplasms of thousands of varieties of crops have originated from its soil. Why do we require genetically ...

Columnists: • C Gopinath • Harish Bijoor • G Chandrashekhar • S Murlidharan • Sharad Joshi • Mohan Murti • S Balakrishnan • Bharat Savur • B S Raghavan • Ganesh Challa • Bhanoji Rao • Swati • T Banusekar • Ramanujam Sridhar • Ranabir Ray Choudhury • Rasheeda Bhagat • P.V. Indiresan • P Devarajan • S Muralidhar • R K Raghavan • B Venkatesh • S Venkitaramanan

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