The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 07, 2002

Strike of irrelevance
A MORBID FEAR of increasingly getting irrelevant alone can explain Friday's strike by bank unions as the labour dispute at Standard Chartered Bank did not merit the shutdown of the entire banking system. The All India Bank Employees' Association ... More

CORPORATE

Ethical behaviour in the throes of difficulty
LUCENT Technologies Inc., the telecommunications company, announced that it was paying two executive vice-presidents a total of $7.58 million (Rs 36 crore) as retention bonus to stay with the company. The company fears that they may leave for ... More

ECONOMY

Mr Yen revisits the South Asian crisis
As long as a financial crisis remains limited to one country or region, unaffected countries, particularly those at the centre, such as the US, face no urgent political need to bear the significant cost associated with playing an international lender of last resort. Realism, not altruism, dictates policy in the G-7 and other countries. More

Lessons from Argentina crisis
IN MY last column, I had written that the biggest risk to Asian bourses and perhaps to global markets could come from Japan this year. Since I wrote the column, there have been some encouraging developments. The Japanese Government gives the ... More

Economy and elections
CURRENT conventional wisdom has it that much of the drumming up of the "conflict situation" with Pakistan is directed at whipping up support for the BJP in the Assembly elections scheduled to be held in the next few months in states such as ... More

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

IMF: It's Monetary Fratricide!
WHEN the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established many years ago, its founding fathers enshrined within its constitution great and noble ideals and intentions. This included the ensuring of exemplary fiscal and monetary discipline, ... More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS

Preparing for Net future

LETTERS

Fate of euro

Change for the better

Credit paradigm

ACCOUNTING STANDARDS

Eyewash, whitewash...

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Blair lauds AP on tech initiatives -- Inaugurates Centre for Good Governance

2001: A year of maturity for HP

Disinvestment to the rescue?

Strike of irrelevance

Shipping Corporation of India -- What will the strategic sale really achieve?

Gold begins 2002 on firm note

US-64 NAV-repurchase price difference -- Budgetary grant for UTI to bridge gap

In Depth
Inside Kashmir

Guide to derivatives

US-64