The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Ultimatum on farm sops
THREE MONTHS AHEAD of the Hong Kong Round of the World Trade Organisation, major economies including India, China and Brazil, participating in a G-20 Ministerial in Pakistan's Bhurban recently, served an ultimatum on developed countries to phase ... More

ECONOMY

UN Summit in New York
Millennium Goals: The story so far
The UNDP's Human Development Report contends that the UN meeting beginning in New York on Wednesday provides a crucial opportunity for governments that signed the Millennium Declaration to show that they mean business. The summit presents them the mo ment to mobilise investments and develop plans to build defences that can stop the tsunami of world poverty. Needed is political will to act on the vision set out five years ago, says G. Srinivasan. More

INFRASTRUCTURE

SIMPLY...
Caught in a cleft over clusters
Clusters did exist in India even before Michael E. Porter analysed their virtues or before the Chinese had the SEZ brainwave in a bid to inject badly needed capital. Going under the drab name `industrial estates', Gujarat and Maharashtra well and tru ly pioneered the cluster ethos many decades ago. More

POLITICS

Art of political speak, fatwa and all that
Seasoned politicians are masters at saying the right thing at the right time. The former Prime Minister and BJP leader, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, used this art to steer the erstwhile BJP-led coalition government through many a storm. The ease with whi ch he bailed out BJP leader, Mr Madanlal Khurana, is another case in point. More

Bigger Lok Sabha?
INCREASING the strength of the Lok Sabha is one of the suggestions mooted by some political parties for getting round the controversy over providing adequate reservation for women. The proposal for an enlarged Lok Sabha deserves to be considered ... More

TEXTILES

Weaving in technology to wrap up textile exports
IN THE quota-free world, no one doubts that textile production will eventuallybecome Asia-centric and the two countries that stand to gain the most will be China and India. India's biggest foreign exchange earner, ... More

RESTRUCTURING

Beware `proactive synergy restructuring teams'
RESTRUCTURING is a happening thing. Yesterday, it hit an air pocket in Delhi and Mumbai airports after Bharti-Changi consortium pulled out of the modernisation project. At the Reserve Bank of India, the word ... More

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