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Wednesday, March 13, 2002
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Farm trade imperatives
THE US AMBASSADOR to India, Mr Robert D. Blackwill, wants all tariff and non-tariff barriers on agricultural trade dismantled in India, and American products allowed freer access to this huge market. He says India's agri-exports to the US worth ... More

ECONOMY


Soft is cruel in reforms
ACCORDING to knowledgeable people, China is slated to be the world's economic power in the near future. Indians fear the Chinese; this is because Indians find the Chinese inscrutable and enigmatic. As Communists under Mao Zedong, the Chinese took ... More

FOREX


The political side of euro
TWELVE national currencies have gone into the political dustbins. Around 300 million people in Europe have come under a common currency, the euro. There is nothing economic about this currency. It is all a political move — every one ... More

POLITICS


March 15... what next?
WHILE the entire nation, including the equity market, waits with bated breath for the March 15 deadline given by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas for performing a symbolic pooja at the undisputed site in Ayodhya, a ... More

SMALL SAVINGS


Is saving irrelevant to growth?
SINCE 1947, India has been following a growth-based strategy with equity considerations, aimed at eliminating poverty, deprivation and stagnancy in the economy. But India's gross national product (GNP) still remains small, compared to most ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES


World of migrants
Like the great waves of humanity that settled America and Australia — riding roughshod over the indigenous population — today's migrants also reflect hope. Their traffic is clandestine only because legal channels are blocked. They must be opened if globalisation is not to be seen only as a device further to enrich rich countries at the expense of the poor. More

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE


Misgovernance
ENRON is neither the first, nor is it likely to be the last, instance of corporate misgovernance. It riveted the attention of people round the world because of the scope and sweep of the financial malfeasance and reckless betrayal of investors' ... More

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