Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
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OPINION EDITORIAL A partial victory HAS THE THREE-MONTH hiatus done some good to the privatisation programme? The answer appears a qualified yes, going by the statement of the Disinvestment Minister, Mr Arun Shourie, in the Lok Sabha on Monday that the Government will go ahead ... More ECONOMY 
All bets on a weak dollarIt is to be weaker dollar, for the US itself does not have the luxury of choosing to live with the currency at current levels. It would push the current account deficit to unprecedented levels, with unpredictable consequences, besides contributing to lower economic growth. Try as they might, Asian central banks cannot prevent the inevitable weakness of the dollar, says V. Anantha-Nageswaran. More POLITICS Gujarat elections: The declining wave CERTAIN trends stand out a few days before the Gujarat polls. The Hindutva wave on whose crest Mr Narendra Modi hoped to achieve a landslide appears to be losing momentum. A recent pre-poll survey by Outlook-Cfore revealed that the ... More RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS 
How powerful are central banks?The demand for central bank "independence" tends to miss the point about how much power central banks still have. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh discuss the extent to which central banks can st ill fulfil their basic functions in the wake of financial liberalisation, and why such demands are still so common. More MARKETING National interest vs competition — Need to strike the right balance SHOULD the `national treatment' idea be kept out of the new Competition Bill (now in Parliament)? While the Commerce Ministry's Trade Policy Division thinks so, the Department of Company Affairs does not. The latter argues that the law does have ... More LETTERS Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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Top Stories In Focus Inside China Gujarat Elections In Depth Gender Justice Simple Economics Small Investor Looking back Dec. 1-Dec. 7 `China will be the market of tomorrow' — Mr M. Arunachalam, Chairman, Indian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong Report of National Commission on Labour — Inconsistencies weaken the safety net Of ayurveda and farmers' rights |
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