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When politics overtakes economics, we're regressing
ONE man's food could be another's poison. And one woman's job — to be fair to genders — could be joblessness for a man. Joblessness for many men and women, actually, if Senator Shirley K. Turner of New Jersey (NJ) is able to push ... More

EDITORIAL


CACP undermined
WHEN WILL THE Centre stop playing politics with farm support prices? The agricultural economy, already in a shambles, is crying for effective and integrated policy support with a long-term perspective; instead it gets ad hoc decisions that ... More

ECONOMY


The Tenth Plan papers — Will laudable goals get the right push?
While certain features, such as the detailed attention to State plans and regional imbalances in the economy, make the Tenth Plan document unique, no attention has been drawn to the pernicious trend of dominance of non-economic goals. In the separati on of socio-political processes from the growth-oriented economic processes, there is a great danger that the former might drown the latter. More

TAXATION


What's in a name
T. C. A. Ramanujam on recent cases where nomenclature of receipt did not decide taxability More

Cui bono Kelkar reforms
Many of the recommendations in the Kelkar report are worthy of implementation, says R. Venkata Subramani More

Business as casual
T. N. Pandey on how taxpayers get harassed and litigation proliferates More

Assumptions in presumptions
S. Murlidharan on the grey areas in the presumptive taxation schemes More

`Small' interest sting
S. N. L. Agarwala on the non- deductibility of interest owed to small-scale and ancillary units More

Specific versus general
R. Anand on the overriding effect of specific provisions over the general ones More

WTO


WTO wrestle
THE recent developments in global trade and commerce highlight the increasing problems that the country faces under the WTO regime. First, in the US, the State of New Jersey passed a Bill banning the outsourcing of Government jobs to competitive ... More
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