The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, February 26, 2002

Coffee's cup of woes
ENERVATED BY ITS own poor foresight and unplanned growth, India's coffee sector is desperately looking for ways to pull itself out of the pit it finds itself in. The recent India International Coffee Festival may have provided some hope ... More

BUDGET

Budget 2002-03: Demand-side policies make sense
IT IS neither surprising nor disappointing that tax exemptions to firms with operations in industrially-backward locales have failed to stimulate economic growth in those areas. It is not a surprise because economic growth is driven continually ... More

Tough agenda for Finance Minister
IN THE run-up to Budget 2002-03 to be presented by the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by the BJP, seems to have suddenly woken up to fulfil a few of its Budget promises made last year. ... More

Mr Sinha's challenge is in mustering consensus
THE NATION, and the media have caught the Budget fever. The various Budget previews seem to suggest that the solution to all the ills of the economy is in the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha's briefcase. While the average wage earner is ... More

POLITICS

Lengthening shadow of troubled times
THE most formidable aspect of India's national debt, some would argue, is cricket captain, Saurav Ganguly who, apropos of the country's archetypal civil servant, is a missile that does not work and cannot be fired. The Indian cricket board may be ... More

Ruling parties taken to cleaners
THE clearest signal from the just-concluded elections in the four States of UP, Punjab, Uttaranchal and Manipur is that the voter continues to take the ruling parties to the cleaners. Once again, it is the anti-incumbency factor that has proved ... More

LETTERS

Afghan mission priorities

Amendment to labour laws

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Tough agenda for Finance Minister

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Put reforms on the fast track: Narayanan

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