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Stock options can be good, bad and ugly
IT is a wonderful idea to give employees stock in the company. It takes the notion of egalitarianism and capitalism to idealistic levels. Can you imagine Karl Marx standing at the factory gates exhorting the workers to break their chains while ... More

EDITORIAL


An unkind cut
THE DECISION TO re-compute the retention price subsidy payable to urea units for the period July, 1 1997 to March 31, 2003 is harsh on manufacturers given its retrospective effect. There is no denying that energy consumption norms or other ... More

AUTOMOBILES


What is GM's strategy in India?
GENERAL MOTORS is one of the largest corporations in the world. In 1999, based on foreign asset holdings, the UN's World Investment Report (2001) ranked it No 4 among the top 100 transnational corporations. Interestingly, it ranked only 83 (18th ... More

ECONOMY


National Human Development Report 2001: Catalyst for framing better policies
THE Planning Commission of India released its National Human Development Report (NHDR) in March 2002. The report is one of the most important documents to come out of the Planning Commission in recent years. In the Report, the Planning Commission ... More

FOREIGN TRADE


Fighting the dons of free trade
The underworld certainly provides a lesson for the neo-liberal economists and the rich and industrialised economies of the first world that relentlessly promote `free trade' as the vehicle for economic growth and development. The don of free trade ha s little or no faith in honesty and integrity. Free trade is not about justice and morality, it is all about exploitation and manipulations and that too economically justified. More

TECHNOLOGY


Vision 2020: The culture of Injelititis
TECHNOLOGY Day was celebrated with great fanfare on May 11, the day chosen to commemorate the second Pokhran explosion. Indian technology has indeed much to celebrate. It can boast many technological achievements but not, as yet, any major export ... More

TERRORISM


J&K: Battling a new force
THIRTY-TWO persons, many of them innocent civilians, including 11 children, were killed in a savage suicide attack by a group of three terrorists at Kaluchak near Jammu on May 14. A hitherto unknown terrorist organisation calling itself Al ... More

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