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Tuesday, January 14, 2003
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Unpalatable aid
AID OR DONATION should normally come with no strings attached; but increasingly food aid is becoming an easy route to introduce biotechnology products in poor countries, and effectively weaken sovereign decision-making powers. New Delhi has done ... More

BUDGET


What's for Budget?
WINTER heralds the Budget season. The Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, has put a stop to meeting the various interest groups. While scrap dealers, software exporters, machine tool-makers and captains of industry will miss the annual event, not ... More

ECONOMY


Will Jaswant Singh get his act together?
There is a hiatus between diagnosis, prescription and implementation at the Government level. Unless this distinct disconnect is removed through "good governance", any plan to take the economy into a higher growth trajectory would get derailed. Will the Finance Minister do this, asks G. Srinivasan. More

FOREX


Build-up of foreign exchange reserves — Cause for cheer, or seeds of trouble?
The recent unprecedented build-up of external reserves is being seen as a sign of economic strength, but it also contains the seeds of future problems. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh consider t he factors behind the accrual of reserves and the implications for the balance of payments and the economy as a whole. More

WATER


Gearing for summer of 2003...: Water logistics to connect Saurashtra, Kutch
Gujarat is going about its preparations for the summer of 2003 on a war footing as it is expected to be one of the worst for the Saurashtra-Kutch region in the last few decades. Even as the transmission and distribution lines get ready to carry Narma da waters to Saurashtra and Kutch, the onus lies on the State Government to pass its new water tariff policy. More

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