The Hindu Business Line : Monday, July 29, 2002

Turmoil in corporate capitalism
THE Business Roundtable is an association of chief executive officers of major corporations in the US. (Of course, that should include Enron, WorldCom, Polaroid and their ilk.) They published a full-page advertisement in the newspapers in the ... More

EDITORIAL

North-East means business
BY ALL ACCOUNTS, the recent North-East Business Summit in Mumbai, which brought together the Centre, the States of the region and industry, went off well. The issue was economic development of the region, which though resource-rich still ... More

ECONOMY

Subsidies and the green effect
OF LATE, much attention has gone to the role financial subsidies play in environmental degradation. Subsidies tend to encourage the activity that is subsidised, whether it be, to name a few, agriculture, energy consumption or water use. But if ... More

Vision 2020: The connectivity mantra
IN THE past few weeks, three different versions of a future vision for India have been presented for the edification of the public. The Planning Commission has put out the National Human Development Report. The Prime Minister has talked of 8 per ... More

The Asian crisis recalled
IT IS five years since the Asian crisis broke out, on July 2, 1997. It was on that day the crisis started with the devaluation of Thai baht. In the five years since, the East Asian economy has undergone a miraculous revival, which is almost as ... More

ENVIRONMENT

Minor ports, major trouble
The omission of minor ports in the Centre's list of industrial and developmental activities that need environmental clearance is puzzling. It has created one of the biggest loopholes in the country's environmental legislation. More

POLITICS

Can they really do anything?

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

FDI confidence — While Asean revives, India struggles
WHILE politicians and media majors are clamouring over FDI in print media, fearing foreign invasion, the Asean is on a mission to allure back the FDI they lost, post-1997 currency turmoil. Strange, but more than two weeks after the Cabinet's ... More

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FDI confidence — While Asean revives, India struggles

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