The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Icons in distress
GENERAL MOTORS AND Ford now share the embarrassment of being the biggest companies in the world ever to be rated below investment grade by the rating industry. Cars are the backbone of American manufacturing and the fortunes of Detroit a ... More

ECONOMY

Twelfth Finance Commission: The endless search for solutions
The Twelfth Finance Commission has tried to blend the objectives of fiscal prudence of the States, incentive for revenue deficit reduction on a State-specific basis, and debt sustainability. But the Commission has also sprung what some States may reg ard as a surprise. K. Venkataraman on some of the key recommendations of the finance panel. More

China's extraordinary export boom
The surge in China's exports in the past two years has been viewed with envy or alarm by the rest of the world. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh investigate the nature of the current export boom. More

CREDIT POLICY

Creditable initiatives from RBI
THE Annual Credit and Monetary Policy statement for 2005-06 of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India is innovative in many directions. For the first time the Policy, under `Prudential Measures', focuses on protection of depositor interest. ... More

WTO

WTO may slip on banana peels, again
The enlargement of the EU in recent years has changed the context in a bizarre way. Its ten new members have been traditionally importing dollar bananas mainly from Ecuador but also from Colombia and Costa Rica. The question for the EU will be "How t o compensate the Latin American countries for their loss of market share in the new member-countries?" Will the single-tariff ensure protection? More

SECURITY

Pragmatic about US defence technology
THE recent offer of American fighters and technology to India should not be spurned out of pique or by following the familiar and hackneyed decision-making process dictated by one political party or the other. It is laughable to believe that ... More

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BHEL Disinvestment

China's revaluation