The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, May 02, 2002

Missing out on human capital
THE "ECONOMIC ATTAINMENT and well being" parameters of the people, depicted in the National Human Development Report 2001, make for a grim reading. Whether on employment, access to safe drinking water and toilet facilities, electricity, ... More

ECONOMY

Mr Sinha is not the villain
THE Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, ruffled many feathers with his non-populist Budget proposals. Now, the BJP is holding him responsible for its election losses. Many of the unpopular proposals have been rolled back — in particular ... More

Pakistan economy caught in a pincer
DARK clouds loom over Pakistan's economy. Its average annual GDP growth in the five-year period ending 2000-01 has been a mere 2.9 per cent. Worse, the GDP per capita — thanks to the unabated population growth — is at a nadir, logging ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

Leitmotif of insularity
S. Murlidharan on the recurring theme of professional abdication More

Fellows' funeral
FOR THE ICAI, the three letters FCA are holy. That's why when the ICFAI started giving its CFA degree to its students, the 4-letter body cried `foul'. The latest issue of The Chartered Accountant carries a status report on the 13-year-old ... More

Top gearing
Chin-Bun Tse explains why finding that perfect debt-equity ratio for your company could be more of an art than a science More

POLITICS

Govt wins vote but key allies mount pressure
A CENSURE motion against the Government was defeated in the Lok Sabha in the early hours this morning, after a marathon debate that began at noon on Tuesday. The motion, which expressed concern at the handling of the situation in Gujarat, secured ... More

Sri Lanka: Towards peace without war
The road to peace in Sri Lanka is obviously going to be long and tortuous, and there is consensus among the intellectual elite, within and outside the country, that for many years all that might be achievable will be a state of `no peace, no war'. More

Unease among Lankans as peace process gets going
LAST week, when the Sri Lanka Foreign Correspondents Association (FCA) invited the Deputy Foreign Minister of Norway, Mr Vdar Helgesen, for a meeting, they presented him with a miniature wooden replica of the Bajaj autorickshaw. This, said the ... More

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