The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 11, 2002

Can we get competitive?
TEN YEARS INTO reforms we are yet to devise a national strategy to address issues relevant to achieving a competitive edge. This shows up all the tall claims made on the reforms process, which has at best moved haltingly and registered only ... More

ECONOMY

If only you knew you're okay
AT TIMES, you get good news from staid economists too. The US National Bureau of Economic Research, the academic panel that studies business cycles, has moved a step closer to declaring an end to the recession that began last March. The ... More

POLITICS

Gujarat tragedy: Pakistan, the beneficiary
INDIA has a long and troubled border with Pakistan — extending from Jammu and Kashmir to Gujarat passing through Punjab and Rajasthan. While the people of Pakistan (essentially Punjabis) across the border in the J&K and Punjab sectors have ... More

Pak referendum — implications for India
SUBTLETY and understatement are attributes that the Pakistani ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf, obviously detests. Nothing demonstrates this more than the so-called referendum he organised on April 30 to cover himself with a fig leaf of legitimacy. ... More

A change in complexion
THE election of Mr Manohar Joshi, the Shiv Sena leader, as the new Lok Sabha Speaker was never in doubt, especially in view of the now-indelible fact that the NDA is full of people and parties who will sacrifice any and everything in return for a ... More

TAXATION

Tools get the chop
T. N. Pandey on how well-meaning tax provisions are being hacked at the altar of poor implementation More

A matter of `interest'
T. C. A. Ramanujam on the need to treat compensatory interest differently from penalty More

A Bill of flaws
IN THE UK, the `titanic' Finance Bill, 2002 has been published, only days after Gordon Brown's Budget of April 17. At 488 pages, it is the third largest on record and is so big that it has had to be published in two volumes. It was always ... More

INTERVIEW

`Peace hinges on economic development in Lankan North-East'
TO nurture the peace process in Sri Lanka, it is very important to keep taking economic benefits to Jaffna and other areas of the north-east, because such initiatives can develop a constituency against war and in favour of peace, Dr Saman ... More

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