The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, July 11, 2002

Harvesting the world market
WHEN IMPORTANT TRADITIONAL export items such as gems and jewellery, textiles and engineering goods showed negative to modest growth last fiscal (overall exports sufferedanegative growthof 1.17 per cent), agriculture and allied products bucked ... More

AGRICULTURE

Contract farming: Sowing promise
AGRICULTURAL commodity production is susceptible to institutional and market failure. Contract farming is often seen as an answer to these systemic imperfections. From an agribusiness perspective, contract farming is a solution to market failure ... More

ACCOUNTANCY

EBITDA RIP?
THE value of earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) as a valid accounting metric and a reliable measure of corporate performance has, once again, surfaced in the wake of the revelation that WorldCom, in effect, hid ... More

Writing on the wall
The Indian accounting profession has lessons to learn from the WorldCom fallout, says R. Anand More

Night duty
AS THE night watchman in a local hospital, I have been having a tough time, trying to keep patients from running away ever since the drug giant, the big-M, disclosed that what it had said earlier was not what was true. "They recorded more than ... More

POLITICS

Jayalalithaa: In the eye of another storm
THE Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, is right back at the centre of another political controversy. Her government has opened its account on POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) by invoking it for the first time in the State on July 9 ... More

Presidential poll and polemics of consensus
THOUGH any election is all about politics, the presidential poll in the country has been sought to be freed from competitive and combative vehemence of electoral politics and polemics. Attempts at evolving a consensus candidate for the nation's ... More

Cabinet reshuffle — Check, checkmate
ESTABLISHING Mr L. K. Advani's supremacy both in the government and the party, and the indication that the BJP would henceforth adopt hard line functioning, were obviously the twin objectives of the recent Cabinet and organisational changes. Mr ... More

MANAGEMENT

Rating plants in quick time
WITH shrinking margins and increasing competition, manufacturing firms the world over are finding that the only way to survive is by reducing production costs and delivering greater value to the customer. If a firm has realised that the key to ... More

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