The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 25, 2005

Whither India-Pakistan relations?
While the Indo-Pak peace process is a cumulative result of the efforts by the present Congress-led Government, the BJP-led regime, and other dispensations of the recent past, there is no certainty that Islamabad will continue to maintain its stand th at the "peace process was now irreversible" after Gen Musharraf leaves the scene, whenever that is. More

EDITORIAL

Feel-good forecast
BECAUSE IT IS not often that the country's agricultural sector receives a double dose of positive news at once, the announcement, in tandem, of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for various crops for the coming kharif season and the forecast of a ... More

CORPORATE

EUROSCAPE
Rumbles of acquisitions in Europe
DASGUPTA is Director, Strategic Acquisitions. His job, which he had held for a long and trusted time, is to purchase and nurture acquisitions on behalf of his holding company, an Indian family-owned pharmaceutical ... More

ECONOMY

World Economic Outlook April 2005
US on notice: Cut spending, fiscal deficit
The latest World Economic Outlook is hard-hitting in pointing out the failures in the economic policies of such superpowers as the US, Europe and Japan. Deploring the widening current account gap of the US, which has a mirror image in the current acc ount surpluses of developing countries like China and India, the WEO prescribes that the US must reduce its massive fiscal deficit even as it cuts consumption. Difficult choices are involved, but the report pins its hopes on leaders who can focus bey ond the here and now, says S. Venkitaramanan. More

FOREIGN TRADE

Elephant and dragon: Competing to co-operate
THE recently concluded four-day visit of the Chinese Premier, Mr Wan Jiabao, to India has taken the bilateral relationship between the two countries to a new high as they have agreed to forge a new "strategic ... More

RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Transforming Rural India, the NGO way
WITH the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) zeroing in on rural development as one of the thrust areas to square up development deficit and narrow regional imbalances, the role of voluntary organisations has assumed ... More

BOOKS

Essential reading
WHARTON School deserves full marks for bringing out a book titled The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want and jointly authored by Drs David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind and Michael Irwin Meltzer. ... More

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