The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Prudence given go-by
AFTER MUCH DITHERING and buck-passing, the Central Board of Trustees of the Employee Provident Fund Organisation has at last decided on the interest rate to be applied on the member's balances for the current fiscal. An immediate outcome of the ... More

ECONOMY

The G-8 owes nothing
It is a pity that the developing economies have ended up voluntarily ceding more resources to the rich. The G-8 Summit at Evian may have little to offer if poor countries have yet to find wholesome and wholesale institutional processes aimed at carin g for their citizens. The best the G-8 countries can do is to show how they have been caring and humanely careful, says G. Ramachandran. More

FOREIGN TRADE

Japanese way to meeting the Chinese threat
THE forthcoming visit of the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, to China has sparked off a buzz, of a possible new dimension in Sino-Indian relations. Keeping aside the long-pending border dispute, the focus of the visit will be more on ... More

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

ICT and development: The connectivity barrier
The ICT for development discussion concentrates on the manner in which the technology can be used to advance human development goals, as illustrated by a large number of experiments under way in the country. This wrongly presumes, argue C. P. Chan drasekhar and Jayati Ghosh, that the pace and nature of diffusion of the technology would not be a constraint on its application for development purposes. More

LETTERS

Rural Electrification Corporation clarifies

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