The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, August 06, 2009

OPINION

POWER: Post-Clinton visit, the key issues
Ms Hillary Clinton’s first visit to India as Secretary of State was overshadowed by the Sharm el-Sheikh fiasco. The visit was important for her personally and also for addressing doubts about the Obama Administration’s policies on ...

FINANCIAL MARKETS: Preference shares with a difference
The world of botany and zoology has registered a good deal of success with hybrids. It is now for the world of finance to successfully experiment with hybrid financial instruments that for a change has got the small investor in ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Cost reduction vs optimisation
The most significant effect of downturn on organisations across the globe is their unified need to cut costs. With the limited scope of expanding their top lines, companies have innovated seemingly bright ideas that can improve their ...

ACCOUNTANCY: Engagement partners
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ACCOUNTANCY: ‘Manufacture’ still produces ambiguity
Most of us are aware that currently under the Income-Tax Act, various tax exemptions/deductions are available. The tax benefits are there in the I-T Act to provide necessary impetus for the rapid growth/industrialisation in specified ...

BOOKS: Rent-seeking behaviour
A disturbing finding about rent-seeking behaviour, in a recent book from Oxford University Press ( www.oup.com), is that in all industries, on an average, the rate of return is nearly double ...

EDITORIAL: Managing public debt
Dr Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, whose name was considered by the Government last July to be the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), said on Tuesday at a meeting that ...

LETTERS: Monetary vs fiscal policy
According to the RBI Governor, Dr D. Subbarao, there are more definite signs of recovery, as stated in “Rolling back expansionary policies on RBI agenda: Subbarao” (Business Line, August ...

LETTERS: Chennai on global map
Chennai has the potential to become a city of international status like Singapore, excelling even Mumbai. Its talents, huge pool of human resources, educational infrastructure, work ethics and peaceful atmosphere are its great ...

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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