The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, March 16, 2004

EDITORIAL
Calling for a revenue cut
THE EVALUATION BY the Department of Telecommunications of a proposal to reduce the revenue share for national and international long-distance operators from 15 per cent to 10 per cent is welcome. Considering the two-phased reduction effected in ... More

ECONOMY
Metaphor for India's backwardness
Instead of being focussed on the politics of allocation, the leaders of UP and Bihar seem distracted by the politics of caste and clan loyalties. These competitions are inevitable in large and heterogonous societies, but when they become the main foc us of political competition the economic costs can be enormous. More

Who got India shining?
The BJP leaders would do well not to belittle the endeavours of nation-builders of the past who laid the foundations of a modern economy, with a strong industrial base, food self-sufficiency, a vibrant public sector in strategic areas, and spectacula r advances in science and technology. More

Sun rises again in the east
Institutions of higher education comparable with the world's best, knowledge of English language, and the ability to absorb surplus people from the hinterland puts India ahead of China, though both the lumbering `elephants' of Asia have begun picking up pace. The world's future may lie in the East, but so do problems — a majority of the 1.2 billion people struggling to survive on less than one dollar a day lives in China and India, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. More

MANAGEMENT
Six sigma demystified
SIX sigma is a word that you have most probably heard. Though GE, during Jack Welsh era, was credited with popularising six sigma, it was Motorola which started the six sigma problem solving methodology in the early ... More

ECONOMICS
Making economics marketable
THE situation is paradoxical: When politics dominated the public discourse, with economics being in season only in Budget times, economics teachers had to address a sea of humanity. Today, economics has all but ... More