The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, March 12, 2002

The positive in negative
THE REPORTED THINKING in the Ministry of Disinvestment in favour of negative bidding for the sale of chronically sick public sector undertakings is no doubt the result of the financial burden the PSUs impose on the Government. The two cases of ... More

ECONOMY

Upgrading productive capabilities
DOES the Budget lack a strategy, if not a grand design, for accelerating the growth of the economy? The answer is that the Budget has an underlying strategy: The Finance Minister could have improved the presentability of the Budget by spelling ... More

Conditionality in the IMF
FOR the last 10-15 years, the very word `IMF' has come to be associated with conditionality. In the 1990s, the IMF's deep involvement in crisis countries and its efforts to promote reform in several low-income countries raised questions about the ... More

Liberalisation: A decade later
THE liberalisation process was expected to achieve two-digit growth rates for the economy. It had worked in other countries and there was no reason to believe it may not for India. The success was contingent on attracting sufficient FDI flows ... More

INSURANCE

Corporate governance -- Important for successful insurance
CORPORATE governance implies company management assuming the role of trusteeship with attendant checks and balances that creates an organisation that gives greater customer satisfaction, has high employee morale and commitment, enhances ... More

POLITICS

Warning signals from the UP mandate
AS expected, the elections in Uttar Pradesh resulted in a hung Assembly and the prediction that none of the contending parties would get a majority was proved correct. Whoever forms the government and whatever may be the shape of the coalition, ... More

Colliding barbarisms: Demystifying history
INDIA at present may be a moral maze of colliding barbarisms but British media corridors have converged on the single source of Hindu Indian guilt. If BBC led the charge, the lower circulation broadsheets, such as the Independent and ... More

EXPORTS & IMPORTS

Mid-term export strategy -- Will Mr Maran's dream come true?
IF China is the driving force behind the Commerce Minister, Mr Murasoli Maran's target of 11.9 per cent annual compound growth over the next five years (2002-07), he might be in for a surprise. Against the lacklustre prospects for recovery in the ... More

LETTERS

Killing a bank

FM on LPG

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ONGC rider on gas supply puts IPCL sale in a limbo

Shine returning to software?

Prudential Bank stops premature payments -- RBI steps in to avert liquidity crisis

Interest cut on I-T refunds

Gold eases on upbeat US economic outlook

Industrial drag persists in Jan

Feb car sales take highway

In Depth
Inside Kashmir

Guide to derivatives

US-64

Looking back
Mar. 3-Mar. 9
Corporate governance failure at Enron

Budget 2002-03 -- Sinha errs on the side of caution

No mandir or masjid is worth this price

Regression rams resurgence in Gujarat

Budget 2002-03: Nurtures middle-men, not farmers