OPINION
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Manmohan-Musharraf meeting — Refreshing pragmatism, rare confidence
Though marked by the usual rhetoric, bilateral relations between India and Pakistan did thaw out further in the warmth of the personal dynamics between Dr Manmohan Singh and Gen Pervez Musharraf. Given the several vexatious issues to be sorted out &# 151; not the least of which is the Kashmir problem — this new resolve is indeed heartening, says Rasheeda Bhagat.
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Prime Minister's foreign odyssey — Skilled navigation conquers minds and hearts
HE WENT. He saw. If to say he conquered will be a bit high-blown, certainly he seems to have vibed well with all those he met. He also came through as one who had done his homework well and sown high-yielding seeds for ...
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EDITORIAL
Textile troubles
IT IS WELL-KNOWN that textile lobbies of developed economies are making a last-ditch stand to protect their turf by trying to push back the end-2004 deadline for the abolition of quota system of exports. Their plea is that, post-quotas, large ...
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ECONOMY
WDR 2005 advice to govts — Reduce policy risks, costs and barriers to competition
THE annual World Development Report for 2005 has come to the conclusion that in order to accelerate growth and reduce poverty, governments must reduce the policy risks, costs and barriers to competition for all ...
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Plan panel: An empire sans a mission?
The Planning Commission, right since its unconstitutional creation, has sought for advice from abroad, rather selectively. While the foreigners might sway their opinion, nothing binds the Government or the Planning Commission to accepting any of thei r recommendations.
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WATER
Water for all: Privatisation not the solution
AFTER the Dublin Conference in 1992 proclaimed that "water has an economic value in all its competing uses and should be recognised as an economic good," multilateral institutions, such as the World Bank, have tried to ...
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SECURITY
Military spending
THE demise of the Soviet Union raised hopes of a "peace dividend" of enormous proportions, previously spent on waging the Cold War and creating and maintaining nuclear and conventional arsenals. Every think tank became ...
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LETTERS
Facilitating VAT
Fiscal imbalance
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