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Thursday, July 09, 2009
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, July 09, 2009 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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OPINION BUDGET: A Budget that is sleight all the way Pranab “gambles with big stimulus”; “Borrows to fund handouts”; “Rs 1,86,000 crore is the fiscal stimulus in 2008-09”; “A House for Commons”. This is how the media, both print and visual, ... EDITORIAL: Self-employed and the NPS Governments are often accused of getting things wrong. But the problem is not so much that they make mistakes. It is that even when they do the right thing, they do it with so much pusillanimity that it appears as if they have messed up. The ... BUDGET: Push for financial services, but… The Finance Minister had the challenge of having to prepare a Budget that would “please all” and yet maintain a sustainable growth trajectory for the economy. The general expectation was that the Budget would provide some stimulus ... POWER: Looking beyond the nuclear deal No international issue in India’s post-Independence history evoked as much domestic and international controversy as the Indo-US Nuclear Deal concluded on July 18, 2005 between the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and the then US ... ACCOUNTANCY: Leg-up for LLPs? While the Finance Minister did not mention any of it in his speech, in the fineprint in the Finance (No. 2) Bill, 2009, he has laid down the roadmap to the taxation of Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs). As expected, LLPs will now ... INCOME TAX: Ominous omnibus The Finance (No. 2) Bill, 2009 contains several provisions and amendments that merit serious consideration. One such measure is the revamping of the presumptive tax scheme. As it is, there are principally three schemes in vogue with none of ... ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: Relentless IASB As relentless as the current Wimbledon champion Roger Federer, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has been consistently issuing accounting standards that would be accepted globally. Both the IASB and the Financial ... BOOKS: Market prices vs fundamentals The belief that markets tend towards equilibrium has given rise to policies which seek to give financial markets a free rein, observes George Soros in The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The credit crisis of 2008 and what ... LETTERS: Farm focus The Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukerjee, has presented a truly aam aadmi Budget, benefiting the various sections of poor. For agriculture, loans of Rs 3,25, 000 crore will presumably be channelled through ...
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Budget, fiscal deficit 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 Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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