The Hindu Business Line : Monday, July 04, 2005

Moving the masses
THE MOST COMMON image of Mumbai is usually of a suburban train with people swarming all over it. Not just Mumbai, this is the reality of Urban India whose population level is expected to rise to 300 million by 2011, or 32 per cent of the total ... More

AIRLINES

Indian aviation boom — The myth and reality
For the aviation sector to work, needed is a support system of airports and their infrastructure, trained manpower, passenger amenities, networks of travel agents and Internet penetration for the travellers. More important, there has to be a rise in the per capita income to make air travel affordable. More

ECONOMY

No simple fix to complex problems
The BIS' annual report for 2004-05 is unusually frank on the prospects of the world economy. Welcoming the reduction in inflation worldwide and an associated decline in its volatility, it voices concerns on other fronts. Warning that the current fin ancial turbulence could herald another boom-bust phase, and uneasy at the diminishing value for corporate governance, the report also dwells on the US current account deficit and China's yuan problems. But it admits that the remedies are easier ad vocated than practised, says S. Venkitaramanan. More

Using knowledge for faster growth
Will the imperatives of development of the Knowledge Economy be able to induce better economic governance in the country? On the face of it, it is unrealistic to expect anything like this, which is unfortunate because it will prevent the economy from encashing the competitive advantage it enjoys in the knowledge sector. More

MANAGEMENT

Perplexing phenomenon
SO far as is known, management literature has largely bypassed a perplexing phenomenon that is part of quotidian experience. And that relates to the cases of those who fare very poorly in one organisation but become a ... More

Ignorance of law: Is it feigned or real?
Can a foreign national be appointed as a director on the board of an Indian company? The answer is `yes'. But not everybody seems to think so as this story reads. More

TRENDS

EUROSCAPE
A prayer for Germany's churches
TEN YEARS ago, it was the chorus of hymns that emanated from the Elias Church in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district. But when I visited it recently, the merry laughter of children greeted me. The Elias Church, with ... More

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