The Hindu Business Line : Friday, July 25, 2003

On tarmac
THE KEY TO flying is to defy gravity. If the country's airport projects are yet to take off, it is more financial gravity than physical. While the Bangalore project is flying into uncertainty over financial closure, those in New Delhi and Mumbai ... More

ECONOMY

China: Opening up to a new world
SINCE December 11, 2001 — a year and three months after China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) — it is apparent that the erstwhile communist economy has emerged from behind the Iron Curtain ... More

India's unbending funding problem
The probability that the unbending funding problem would become an unending funding problem is high. The problem is structural. The structural adjustment programme that began in 1991 has failed to address the issue of elitism in the government sect or. India has to mend the unbending funding problem now by addressing the structural issues related to incomes and productivity in the government sector, says G. Ramachandran. More

POLITICS

CBI in the dock
THE Opposition was entirely within its right to demand as vociferously as it did an answer from the Government in Parliament over whether the CBI watered down its case against the Deputy Prime Minister and Home ... More

STOCKS

Free-float Sensex — To what purpose?
THE Bombay Stock Exchange's decision to move to a free-float index from September 1, 2003 is unlikely to make significant difference to portfolio managers. This article takes a critical look at some of the reasons cited ... More

BANKING

Equator Principles — Why Indian banks too should be guided by them
The Equator Principles — a voluntary set of guidelines developed for managing social and environmental issues related to the financing development projects — apply only to projects which cost $50 million or more, as those costing less rep resent only 3 per cent of the market. More

LETTERS

GDP growth

Kerala politics

Gas price hike

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