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Tuesday, June 11, 2002
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EDITORIAL


Lanka trade tangle
HAS THE FREE Trade Arrangement between India and Sri Lanka — operationalised in February 2000 — put the trade ties between the two countries on a footing firmer than before? The answer is not very flattering if one goes solely by ... More

ECONOMY


Significance of modal income
MEAN is a popular statistical measure used by experts and common folk to measure and to describe the prosperity of nations. Per capita incomes and mean household incomes are widely used by economists and policy-makers in government and by ... More

FOREX


Burgeoning forex reserves: Boon or bane?
Foreign exchange reserves held by the RBI rose to unprecedented levels, increasing by nearly $12 billion between April 2001 and March 2002. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh investigate the increa se in official reserves and consider what it tells us about the current state of the Indian economy. More

AGRICULTURAL POLICY


OECD farm policies and world agricultural markets
The US has come out with a Farm Bill that puts paid to any meaningful reform of its farm sector. The developments in the US and Europe would be a blow to the efforts now under way to whittle down agricultural protection worldwide and allow the marke t to govern agricultural trade, ensuring benefits for consumers, taxpayers and non-agricultural employment in rich countries and a proper price for the produce of the developing world. More

DISINVESTMENT


Why disinvestment has not attracted FDI
NOTWITHSTANDING the limping stock market, 2002 was the year of `Disinvestment' for the Government. Mega disinvestment deals, such as VSNL, IBP and Maruti Udyog reinvigorated the disinvestment scene. However, the success of disinvestment has so ... More

LETTERS


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